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Union officers

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1010 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: October 1863 Pagination: 1 photograph 9.5 x 9.5 cm Order a Copy

The image shows 6 union officers in camp, posed in front of an A-frame tent with horses in the background. Numeric notation on image: "280." Inscription on verso: "Gen. Ward, Gen. Mott, Col. Ausin, Col. Brewster, and Col. Farnham, 2d Div., 3d Corps, Oct., 1863. Numeric notations on verso: "120" and "104."

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