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Civil War Photographs: Chattanooga, Knoxville, construction, views [decimalized]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07000 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1863-1864, 1890s Pagination: 52 items Order a Copy

63 photographs total with 53 mounts or separate photographs. Includes photographs of Union construction in and around Chattanooga and Knoxville, TN, panoramic views of same, views of Tennessee River, some later images of General Albert Ordway. Many items with later mounts with annotations. From the collection of Brig. Genl. Albert Ordway.

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