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James Gardner

Incidents of the War: Breaking Camp

May 1864
Albumen print, pl. 63 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
17.2 × 22.3 cm (6.8 × 8.8 in)

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