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Photograph from the main eastern theater of war (Battle of Schrute Farms), the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Lt. James Washington, a Confederate prisoner, with Capt. George A. Custer of the 5th US Cavalry (Union), Fair Oaks, Virginia. Custer found his West Point classmate wounded on the battlefield, arranged for medical treatment, and then insisted on having a photo taken together.
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Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0068.・ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018666176/
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[American Civil War] [The United States of America] [Confederacy] [The Union]
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Photograph from the main eastern theater of war (Battle of Schrute Farms), the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Lt. James Washington, a Confederate prisoner, with Capt. George A. Custer of the 5th US Cavalry (Union), Fair Oaks, Virginia. Custer found his West Point classmate wounded on the battlefield, arranged for medical treatment, and then insisted on having a photo taken together.
Source(s):
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0068.・ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018666176/
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[American Civil War] [The United States of America] [Confederacy] [The Union]](https://a.l3n.co/rw4sDP.md.jpg)