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Grand Review of the Armies of Grant and Sherman. Maj. Gen. Humphrey and Staff

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.254 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1865/05/23 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Grand Review of the Great Veteran Armies of Grant and Sherman at Washington, on the 23d and 24th May, 1865. The Army of the Potomac. Looking up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treaury Buildings. Maj. Gen. Humphrey and Staff, and 2d Army Corps passing in review."

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