Clinch Rifles photograph, [between 1861 and 1865].

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Clinch Rifles photograph, [between 1861 and 1865].

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Photograph (10-1/2 X 13 inches on sheet 13 X 20 inches) shows eight white men and one black at campsite, with the letters "CR" on their tent and tub. Caption says, "Men of the Fifth Georgia."

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Georgia Southern University

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Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 5th

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