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This is a piece of the first flag taken from Corinth by the first man that entered the breastworks (genuine). I obtained it at the Union Club, Feby. 22, 1864
Summary
Piece of cloth with manuscript note.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Published in: The Civil War: A visual history. Bath, U.K. : Parragon, 2011, p. 187.
Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
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Date
01/01/1864
Source
Library of Congress
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