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View of the outer Trenches on the last day of the battle in front of Nashville..

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.047 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 of the outer Trenches on the last day of the battle in front of Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 16, 1864, showing the ground where the most desperate charges were made." A scarred field, with two houses still standing in the distant background. A group of wagons also stand in the background.

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