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OPPOSING VIEW

HEN CAPTAIN ANDREW RUSSELL, photographer for the United States Military Railroad, exposed the wet plate in his camera to take this image shortly after the December 11-13, 1862, Battle of Fredericksburg, he took a rare picture of live Confederates in the field. This photo, one of a series taken by Russell,

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