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- GLC#
- GLC04962
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1862/04
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- Half-plate ambrotype, Edgar County CH, Paris, Ill. with soldiers leaving for war
- Place Written
- [Paris, Ill.]
- Pagination
- 1 cased photograph Height: 12.5 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
The image shows a wagon and a crowd of newly recruited soldiers preparing to leave for the Civil War. Lincoln practiced law at this court house (among others). The leather-covered case measures 12.5 x 15.5 cm; the image is roughly 10.8 x 14 cm.
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