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

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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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wooden buildings virginia hopewell railroad facilities war casualties skeletons history civil war battlefields transportation union albumen prints card photographs soldier city point skeletons city point original government photographer government photographer war 1861 19th century american civil war united states history library of congress
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01/01/1861
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Reekie, John, photographer
Taylor & Huntington, publisher
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Library of Congress
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wooden buildings virginia hopewell railroad facilities war casualties skeletons history civil war battlefields transportation union albumen prints card photographs soldier city point skeletons city point original government photographer government photographer war 1861 19th century american civil war united states history library of congress