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Soldier's Quarters [New Berne, NC] [split stereocard]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1252 Author/Creator: Place Written: New Bern, North Carolina Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph 8.6 x 8.3 cm Order a Copy

The image shows five soldiers in the yard in front of a two-storey building, with a group of approximately eleven others on the second-storey balcony.

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