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A Fancy Group, in Front of Petersburg

Date: August 1864
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of a group of Union Army soldiers at an encampment gathered for a cock fight. The group of men sit in a semi-circle around two men crouched in the center, facing each other and holding roosters for the fight. Behind the group, a tent sits beneath a crude covering made of narrow tree trunks and topped with evergreen branches.

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