A dead rebel soldier, as he lay on the foot passage in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation." Part of a broken musket and bayonet stuck in the bank. The marks and spots on his face are blood oozing from the wound in his head. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va. April 2d, 1865

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A dead rebel soldier, as he lay on the foot passage in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation." Part of a broken musket and bayonet stuck in the bank. The marks and spots on his face are blood oozing from the wound in his head. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va. April 2d, 1865

Digital ID: (digital file from original, front) ppmsca 97213 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.97213
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-97213 (digital file from original, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-97214 (digital file from original, back)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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A dead rebel soldier, as he lay on the foot passage in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation." Part of a broken musket and bayonet stuck in the bank. The marks and spots on his face are blood oozing from the wound in his head. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va. April 2d, 1865

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