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Field Telegraph, Battery Wagon

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

View of a wagon, used to hold a large battery that powered the field telegraph, in a clearing near a Union Army encampment. A man stands at one end of the wagon and rests one elbow on the wagon as he smokes a pipe. A second man sits in the wagon writing in a notebook that lies open on a table in front of him. The wagon features a painted sign that reads "Military Telegraph H'd Q'rs Battery Wagon" covers the side of the wagon and tents and soldiers are visible in the background.

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