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Camp on the Peninsula

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.214 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Handwritten on back: "Camp on the Peninsula" Seemingly endless rows of tents and soldiers milling among them. Clothes are draped over a tent in the foreground on the left hand side of the photograph.

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