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John B, Hood, General

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07072 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1862 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 15.5 cm, Width: 11.1 cm Order a Copy

Photographic bust portrait of "the Iron Boar" John Bell Hood showing three stars. Photograph likely taken while Hood was in command of the Army of Tennessee. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

Hood, John Bell, 1831-1879

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