The Trenches of Fort Mahone [copy 2]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.060 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1865/04/02 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy
E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay on the foot passage in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers 'Fort Damnation.' Part of a broken Musket and Bayonet stuck in the bank. The marks and spots on his face are blood oozing from the wound in his head. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865." View of a soldier's body with his hands folded over his belly. Same subject as #5137.57 with photograph shot lengthwise from above the head.
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