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View of main battlefield on the Crew Farm [Malvern Hill] [1862-1865 ca.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0320 Author/Creator: Place Written: Malvern Hill, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 1862-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 35.6 cm, Width: 27.9 cm Order a Copy

Full title from graphite inscription on recto: "View of main battlefield on the Crew Farm from Center of Union Position near Quaker Road. Confederates formed in woods & charged across this field." Marked "2" on top left corner. Extensive graphite annotations on recto note changes in the geographic features. On bluish-gray mount.

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