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Colonel Mulligan, Napoleon pose, vignette [salt print] [cabinet card].

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0640 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 10.8 cm Order a Copy

Mulligan wears civilian dress and a ribbon in his lapel. He strikes a Napoleonic pose. Inscriptionon verso: "Col. Mulligan." The image has been touched-up [painted]. From Brady Archives, mounted on cabinet card mounts just before or during early 1862.

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