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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07000.16 Author/Creator: Place Written: Knoxville, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: March 1864 Pagination: 1 albumen ; 27.7 x 35.5 cm. Order a Copy

extending from a point south of Fort Dickerson, around by the west and north to Malry's Hill on the northeast

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