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Scene in the Hospital (leg amputation)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.200 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

No identification. Label on front: "Scene in the Hospital." Zouave soldiers helping a doctor with a leg amputation. Handwritten on verso: "Hospital Scene at Fortress Monroe, Va." Not the same as 5137.201

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