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View of fortifications with doors cut into sand mounds [Fort Fisher?]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0387 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 9.5 cm, Width: 11.1 cm Order a Copy

Two soldiers pose in the front of sand structures and a third man poses in the doorway of the mound on the left side of the image. Numeric notation: "XXII 1236."

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