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General Lee's Headquarters
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Stereograph of General Lee's headquarters at Gettysburg, photographed by Mathew Brady a few days after the battle. Two women appear on the lower right.
June 1863
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 (photographer)
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