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[Detail] Group of Company G, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry
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Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, contains 1,118 photographs which feature Civil War encampments, battlefields, and portraits including Lincoln, Lee, and Grant) as captured by Mathew Brady and his staff of photographers. Brady's photography exhibits marked the first time Americans witnessed the carnage of war in their homeland.
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- The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
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- The Abraham Lincoln Papers
- African American Odyssey
- African American Perspectives, 1818-1907
- American Life Histories, 1936-1940
- Civil War Maps
- Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
- The Gettysburg Address
- The Hotchkiss Map Collection
- Taking the Long View, 1851-1991
- Walt Whitman Notebooks, 1847-1860s
- Words & Deeds in American History
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