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Camp in the Woods at Cold Harbor, Va

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.176 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1864/06/06 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. The Gallery of Alex Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac, Washington, D.C. Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. Taken June 6, 1864. Shows scared woods with two soldiers barely visible in the woods and clearing.

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