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Confederate Winter Quarters

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0937 Author/Creator: Place Written: Manassas, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 1862 Pagination: 1 photograph 9.2 x 9.5 cm Order a Copy

Roughly constructed wooden buildings which were used as the winter quarters of the Confederate Army. Inscription on verso: "Winter quarters of the Rebel army at Manassas, Va., 1862." Numeric notation on verso: "121." Additional inscription on verso: "Collection of Americana. Frederick H. Meserve 265 Edgecombe Avenue New York City."

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