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Alexander Gardner

Scouts and Guides to the Army of the Potomac

October 1862
Albumen print, pl. 28 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 in)

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