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Wilderness # 30. Confed. entrenchments near McCool's house (Spotsylvania)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0435 Author/Creator: Place Written: Spotsylvania, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 14.4 cm, Width: 10.6 cm Order a Copy

Title from inscription on verso. Close view of tree with sign reading: "On fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread & glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead." Stamp of the century co. on verso. Inscription on verso: "94." Same locale as # 434, the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania.

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