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Inside Fort Mahone [copy 2 with different caption]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.064 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1865/04/02 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "This picture is a good view of the Covered Ways inside the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers 'Fort Damnation.' The Union soldiers had to charge up and down these obstructions. In the foreground centre is a dead Rebel Soldier sticking out through the debris, and further on lies another Confederate Soldier. This View was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865." With tax stamp. The same image as GLC05137.63, but an earlier version. Note differences in captions.

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