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Elmer F. Ellsworth

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05135.012 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph : B&W ; 7 x 11 cm. Order a Copy

Standing. Probably heavily retouched. On the back there is an excert from the Mysterious Likeness of Col. Ellsworth and Letters

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