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Battery No. 1, Near Yorktown, Virginia

May 1862
Albumen print, pl. 13 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
17.4 × 22.4 cm (6.9 × 8.8 in)

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