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1862-1863
Special Photographs / Special Photographs/Military/Civil War
GUSN-197466
Major General John G. Foster and his staff stand on the porch of the Charles Slover House used as a headquarters in New Bern, North Carolina. Foster is in front of the porch column on the left.
group portraits
soldiers
military personnel
generals
civil wars
houses
dwellings
photographs
black-and-white photographs
DigitalID 002318
AccessID 4273
Other identifier HNEDID-002318
1 photographic print : black-and-white, mounted
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.04.TMP.009
New Bern (Craven county, North Carolina)
photographs
black-and-white photographs
Foster, John G. (John Gray), 1823-1874
Civil War
Item
Special Photographs / Special Photographs/Military/Civil War
Information provided by the New Bern Historical Society states the image is Major General John G. Foster and his staff in front of the Charles Slover House, southwest corner of East Front and Johnson Streets, ca. 1863, from John B. Green III's "A New Bern Album," (New Bern, NC: Tryon Palace Commission, 1985).
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