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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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Tags
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
industrial history
Date
01/01/1861
Contributors
Reekie, John, photographer
Taylor & Huntington, publisher
Location
Hopewell
,
37.30432, -77.28720
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.