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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.219 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Group of eight soldiers, probably all officers, sitting around and looking intensively at a table. A man on the right-hand side of the photograph wears a medal.

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