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Dutch Gap Mud Scow

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.185 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1864/11[?] Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Dutch Gap Mud Scow, sunk by a Rebel Shell on Thanksgiving day." The year 1864 is handwritten in following the caption. Shows a sunken boat with two men standing on wooden planks.

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