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A NEW EXPOSURE

s part of the commemorative activities in Gettysburg, Pa., this July for the 160th anniversary of the battle fought there July 1-3, 1863, the Center for Civil War Photography and the Adams County Historical Society unveiled a newly discovered wartime

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