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Daguerreotype portrait of American Brigadier General Thomas Lawson, c. 1840's.

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Union surgeon Dr. Charles K. Irwin of the 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (left) and another unidentified soldier posing in front of a tent in a camp in Culpeper, Virginia, September 1863. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of Lafayette Guild, c. 1850's. He later served as the Chief Surgeon and Medical Director for the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.

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Daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the bedside of a dead or dying patient, 1849.

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Two photographs of Union surgeon Dr. Richard Burr in the process of embalming an unidentified Union soldier while serving with the Army of the James.

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