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View from the front of the State House... Nashville, Tenn.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.046 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1864[12/16] Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "View from the front of the State House looking over the field during the battle at Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15th and 16th, 1864." Six men and one woman on a hill, looking down over the roofs of some houses and barns. View slightly to the right of War View: 2635 (GLC05137.045).

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