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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0136-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1861-1865
- Author/Creator
- Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
- Title
- [Group of nine officers posed in the entryway of a brick building]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 albumen print Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 17 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
A print of nine Union officers. Photo was most likely taken in Washington. Two women peer from a window on the left hand side of the image. A young boy wearing a cap sits in front of the men. The soldier to the far left holds a bugle, while the soldier to the far right wears a gray uniform, possibly a state guard or local militia uniform. Present are a colonel or major (second from right upper row) and 1st lieutenant (upper row right-most). Inscription on verso: "Gardner XXXI 875."
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