[Unidentified soldier in Union officer's uniform at Point Lookout, Tennessee, sitting with cavalry saber in hand and slouch hat resting beside him on a rock] [graphic]. [1863?]

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[Unidentified soldier in Union officer's uniform at Point Lookout, Tennessee, sitting with cavalry saber in hand and slouch hat resting beside him on a rock] [graphic]. [1863?]

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Photo shows an officer who posed for the Linns, who left Ohio to photograph the Army of the Cumberland. In late 1863, after the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, the pair set up a studio near Point Lookout. Here they photographed the western Union armies as they concentrated for an advance on Atlanta. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)

1 photograph : quarter-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 11.8 x 9.4 cm (case)

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Linn, Royan M.,

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More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj From the description of [Private Henry McCollum of Company B, 78th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and three unidentified soldiers in 78th Pennsylvania Infantry uniforms at Point Lookout, Tennessee] [graphic]. [1863?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 742921416 More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp...

Linn, James Birney, 1844-1922

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