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The Morning After the Storming of Petersburgh, Va

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.068 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 Rebel Soldier, killed in the trenches before Petersburgh. The shots and marks on his face, are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell. View taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865. Tax stamp partially torn off.

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