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Extreme Line of Confederate Works, Cold Harbor, Virginia

Date: April 1865
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of a large fallen tree in a field used by Confederate soldiers to create a defensive line. Piles of wooden boards are propped up to create pyramids and leaned against the trunk of the tree, along with twigs and branches gathered from the surrounding landscape.

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