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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0600-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1864-1865 ca.
- Author/Creator
- Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
- Title
- Maj. Thomas T. Eckert (seated, left) and others of U.S. Military Telegraph Corps, near Petersburg, Va. [1864-1865 ca.]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 photograph Height: 15.9 cm, Width: 17.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
The image shows seven men with a tent on the left behind them. Three men are seated and the other four stand behind. Eckert is seated last on the left. Fay's stamp in the upper left reads: "From Historic Collection of H.W. Fay, DeKalb, Ill." The name "Thos. T. Eckert" is visible in the lower left of the image. Inscription on verso: "Major Thomas Eckert and group of Telegraphers - in war times. Gen Eckert afterwards Pres. Western Union Telegraph Co."
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