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Summary

Photograph showing skulls and bones of unburied soldiers.

No. 5022.

Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness".

Forms part of Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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wilderness battle of the va history civil war campaigns and battles war casualties skulls bones albumen prints views woods federal lines federal lines orange road 1864 north side 19th century american civil war lot 4167 civil war glass negatives and related prints g o brown photo ultra high resolution high resolution united states history library of congress
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Date

01/01/1864
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Brown, G. O., active 1860-1889, photographer
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Library of Congress
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wilderness battle of the va history civil war campaigns and battles war casualties skulls bones albumen prints views woods federal lines federal lines orange road 1864 north side 19th century american civil war lot 4167 civil war glass negatives and related prints g o brown photo ultra high resolution high resolution united states history library of congress