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Smith, William Morris Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity). Officers of 5th U.S. Cavalry

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0175 Author/Creator: Smith, William Morris Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: June 1865 Pagination: 1 albumen print ; 22.3 x 16.9 cm. Order a Copy

A print of a photograph of five officers of the Fifth Calvary regiment seated in front of an open tent. A civilian man in stove pipe hat sits behind the officers, just inside the tent. Published in Photographic History of the Civil War II: 223 (Second section of book).

Title and information from Library of Congress entry, see https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003006510/PP/.

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