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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07000.17 Author/Creator: Place Written: Knoxville, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: March 1864 Pagination: 1 albumen Height: 27.7 cm, Width: 35.5 cm Order a Copy

Extending from Fort Stanley on the southeast around by the south and west to Fort Sanders

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