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Headquarters and barracks of Colonel Morgan's Regt.

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Headquarters and barracks of Colonel Morgan's Regt.

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Summary

Photograph shows Union soldiers engaged in a training exercise or inspection, Fort Prentiss, Cairo, Illinois.
Title from pencil inscription on mount.
Additional inscriptions on mount include: "commencement of the line of Col. Oglesby's barracks", "Mississippi River", "Missouri", "Fort Prentiss[?]".
Photograph possibly taken by Munn & Faul.
"No. 2" upper left corner.
Purchase; William L. Schaeffer; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:173.06).

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Date

01/01/1861
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Location

Cairo (Ill.)37.00528, -89.17639
Google Map of 37.00527777777778, -89.1763888888889
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