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Cavalry members in front of tent with Ku Klux Klan sign on tent

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.190 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

A group of men sitting in a campground. Above the tent in the background is a sign reading "Ku Klux Klan. Case. Bowers. Bacon. Rocwell. Olmested. " Cavalry insignia between the names. Uniforms of soldiers hand-colored. Possibly a reunion photograph? On sides are advertisements for "Camp, Photographer, Hartford, Conn." and "Rooms, Charter Oak Bank Building, Cor. Asylum and Trumbull Sts."

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