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Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) [Ulysses S. Grant and staff after Battle of the Wilderness]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00588 Author/Creator: Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) Place Written: Cold Harbor, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: June 1864 Pagination: 1 albumen ; 16 x 18 cm. Order a Copy

Twelve men with Grant, in front of tent, holding map. At Cold Habor, Va. Meade is seated with map on knee. Sedgewick standing at right with map, with other staff members; he was killed shortly after this picture was taken. Also included in the photograph is Ely Parker. Col. Rawlins sits at far left, John G. Barnard sits with hands in lap at center near Parker. Published in William C. Davis Photographic History of the Civil War v.2 p.679. (Previously printed as The Image of War).

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
Sedgwick, John, 1813-1864
Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895
Rawlins, John A. (John Aaron), 1831-1869
Barnard, John Gross, 1815-1882

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