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Soldier's skeletons City Point, Virginia / / Original photographs taken by the Government photographer during the war.

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Soldier's skeletons City Point, Virginia / / Original photographs taken by the Government photographer during the war.

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Summary

Photographs show (on recto) decomposing skeletons on a stretcher with men disinterring remains from battlefield graves at Cold Harbor, Virginia, to be moved to national cemeteries and (on verso) a Union supply depot and railroad yard at City Point, Virginia, now Hopewell, Virginia.

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Date

01/01/1861

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Contributors

Reekie, John, photographer

Taylor & Huntington, publisher

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Location

Hopewell, 37.30432, -77.28720

Google Map of 37.3043154, -77.2872001

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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