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Hollyland's Metropolitan Photograph Gallery (1864) [Lieutenant Philander B. Grant]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05528.16 Author/Creator: Hollyland's Metropolitan Photograph Gallery (1864) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1864 Pagination: 1 carte de visite-de-visite : b&w ; 10.2 x 6.4 cm. Order a Copy

Vignette bust portrait with small beard. Identifying inscription on verso.

Grant enlisted as a Lieutenant 2nd Class on 12 September 1862 at the age of 35 and was commissioned in Company I, 10th Heavy Artillery Regiment New York on the same date.

Hollyland's Metropolitan Photograph Gallery, 1864
Grant, Philander B., fl. 1827-1865

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