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File Details: AUDNm, 360 DPI, JPEG, Original Photograph, 2.9 Mb

Image ID: AUDN

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1861-1865

Equipment:

binoculars; canteen; flag; horse; long gun; saddle; sword; telescope

Military Units:

Signal Corps; US Army

Sources:

University of Maryland (Baltimore County)

University of Maryland, Baltimore County says: Officer lays on ground with telescope. Two other soldiers, one holding reins of three horses, the other holding pole with flag. Identified in Miller’s Photographic History of the Civil War (v. 8, p. 13) as an officer in the Federal Signal Corps reading a distant signal. Version that appears in Miller is cropped to center of this image.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 8, p13.

Unidentified location.

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