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Image Title: A Burial Party On The Battle-Field Of Cold Harbor, 1865

Creator: Reekie, John, photographer

Date: 1865 April printed later, c1866.

Summary: Photograph showing an African American soldier seated next to a stretcher containing the remains of his comrades who perished in the battles of Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbor.

Notes: Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

Related Names: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Subjects: Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864
Dead persons--Virginia--Cold Harbor--1860-1870
Gravedigging--Virginia--Cold Harbor--1860-1870
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties--Union--Virginia--Cold Harbor
War casualties--Virginia--Cold Harbor--1860-1870

Original Media: Photograph

Collections: Civil War

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