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Picket Guard with Prisoners, near [Lewinsville]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.215 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Label on front: "Picket Guard with Prisoners, near . . . ." Rest of caption has been cut off but area is the same as GLC05137.178 and GLC05137.195. Two men in civilian clothes stand with a three enlisted men behind them and three officers in front of them.

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