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Headquarters of General Hooker

Headquarters of General Hooker

Alexander Gardner

1861–1865

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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buildingsAmerican Civil WarSoldiers

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Pontoon Bridge, Across the Potomac, at Berlin, Maryland, November 1862

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Lincoln's Second Inauguration

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Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburgh and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 3, September 1862

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Smokestack of Confederate Ram Merrimac at Richmond/Remains of Ironclad Ram "Virginia #2", April, 1865

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Ruins at end of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond

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Ruins of Petersburg and Richard Raidroad Bridge

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Military Telegraphic Corps, Army of the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

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Aquia Creek Landing

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Mill, Richmond, Virginia

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Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington

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Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia

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Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 2, September 1862

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Headquarters of General Hooker by Alexander Gardner — VisualArtsDB