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Unidentified soldier, standing full-length portrait wearing forage hat

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1200 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite 9.9 x 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Photographers imprint on verso: "Photographed by B. W. T. Phreaner, Washington Street, Hagerstown, Md. No...... Duplicates of this picture can be had at any time." Cancelled orange two-cent tax stamp on verso.

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