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Twenty Union officers outside of house

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0199 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 albumen print Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 17.3 cm Order a Copy

A print of a photograph of twenty Union Army officers posed in front of a house. Their ranks vary from 2nd Lt. to Lt. Col. House is of a clap-board design and has a large porch. Pencil inscriptions on verso: "XII", "194" and "Ordway Gardner Coll."

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