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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0106-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- February 1865
- Author/Creator
- Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
- Title
- Petersburg, Virginia. Group of Provost Guard, headquarters, Army of the Potomac
- Place Written
- Petersburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 albumen print Height: 24.1 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
A print of a photograph of a group of Union troops. An officer on the far right inspects, two regular soldiers, two Zouave soldiers, and four cavalrymen, while a group of other soldiers stands and watches in the background. The Zouaves wear dark blue jackets and less baggy trousers, with red sashes, white leggings [gaiters], and jambiéres. The cavalry men belong to Co. K of the 1st Indiana Cav., Co.s C & D of the 1st Mass. Cav., and the 3rd Penn. Cav. The photograph appears in the Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. II, Part 2, p. 182. Graphite inscription on verso: "Gardner XI-II 251."
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