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Soldiers' Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

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Soldiers' Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

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Photograph shows Soldiers' Cemetery which was founded in 1862 and may have been one of the first Civil War cemeteries.
No. 187.

Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic prints / by Andrew J. Russell ; with a preface by Joe Buberger and Matthew Isenberg. New York : Dover Publications, c1982, no. 104.

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01/01/1861

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Russell, Andrew J., photographer

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Alexandria, 38.81982, -77.08419

Google Map of 38.8198176, -77.0841863

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