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Gun battery number one, Yorktown, Virginia

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1361 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite 6.2 x 10 cm Order a Copy

Image shows five cannon behind heavy fortifications. Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Graphite inscription on verso "Battery no. 1 Yorktown, Va." "1866."

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