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Evacuation of Port Royal

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1049 Author/Creator: Place Written: Port Royal, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 30 May 1864 Pagination: 1 photograph 9.2 x 8.3 cm Order a Copy

The image shows a large group of people, wagons and cattle waiting at the edge of a river with a pontoon bridge leading to a group of boats, and a wood-slat roof in the foreground. Numeric notation on recto: "2492." Inscription on verso: "Evacuation of Port Royal, Va., May 30, 1864." Numeric notations on verso: "134" "105" and "2492."

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