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General Sherman's battery

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1368 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 6.3 cm, Width: 10.7 cm Order a Copy

Image shows a large group of wagons, with approximately eleven soldiers standing with them in front of a two large buildings in the distance. Imprint on recto "Sherman's Battery, July 24th, after the return from Bull Run. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by D. Appleton & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. for the So. Dist. of N.Y." Photographers imprint on verso: "Cartes de Visite D. Appleton & Co. 443 & 445 B'way New York A A Turner Photographer."

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