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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Captured Confederate camp captured by 18th Corps [Petersburg ?]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0422 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1864/06/15 Pagination: 1 photograph 9 x 10.4 cm Order a Copy

Image of a rough camp with two men standing outside of a tent on the right side of the image. A third man sits near them. The foreground of the image is littered with brush or debris. Many of the tents and cabins look delapitatted. Numeric notation: "782 XI - III."

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