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Council of War,

Gelatin silver print

Inscribed on verso: title and date; inscribed on verso: “RDW/37120/LC-B8171-730”

Edition: Photograph taken 21 May 1864; Library of Congress copy print

Accession number: 1993.6.3

Gift of Russell G. D’Oench, Jr., 1993

The image depicts Grant and Meade examining a map at Massaponax Church, Virginia.

Work Type: photograph

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• civil wars
• maps
• churches
• military
• U.S. Civil War
• Civil War era
• Virginia

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