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City Point, Virginia Tents of the general hospital

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City Point, Virginia Tents of the general hospital

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Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0402
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4180.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.

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01/01/1864

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city point

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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Civil war photographs, 1861-1865," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/120_cwar.html