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Colonel Bolles, 1/2 length portrait. [salt print] [1861-1865 ca.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0596 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 21 cm, Width: 24.1 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "Col. Bolles of [struck: 2d Va Regt or Ohio not know yet which] 2nd West Va Vo." From Brady Archive.

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