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Camp in the woods near Culpeper, Virginia

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0976 Author/Creator: Place Written: Culpeper, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: Nov. 1863 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 9.2 cm, Width: 10.1 cm Order a Copy

The image shows one man standing in the woods bordering a group of A-frame tents. Numeric notation on image: "242." Inscription on verso: "Camp in the woods near Culpeper, Va. Nov., 1863." Numeric notation on verso: "141" "223" and "242."

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