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Portraits of Union military personnel and a Confederate prisoner

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809302


Item data

Title

Portraits of Union military personnel and a Confederate prisoner

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
American History -- 1860s

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1896

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AME-186

Subjects

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- 1860-1869
Prisoners -- United States -- 1860-1869
Smith, C. F.
Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872

Genres

Photographs

Notes

Content: Printed on border: "Campfire and battlefield. 79" "Major-General Henry W. Halleck ; Colonel James A. Garfield (afterward Major-General) ; Major-General C. F. Smith ; Captain Custer, U.S.A., and Lieutenant Washington, a Confederate prisoner." Includes additional text.
Source Note: Campfire and battlefield : history of the conflicts and campaigns of the great Civil War in United States. (New York : 1896) Johnson, Rossiter (1840-1931), Author.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photographic print : b ; 20 x 23 cm. (11 3/4 x 9 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17613364
Barcode: 33333159318613
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): bf1dba70-c531-012f-65c9-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1896

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Portraits of Union military personnel and a Confederate prisoner" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1896. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bf1dba70-c531-012f-65c9-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1896). Portraits of Union military personnel and a Confederate prisoner Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bf1dba70-c531-012f-65c9-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Portraits of Union military personnel and a Confederate prisoner" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bf1dba70-c531-012f-65c9-58d385a7bc34

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