File:Appomattox courthouse.jpg

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Description

English: Appomattox Court House, Va. Federal soldiers at the courthouse April 1865

Date

April 1865

Source

20 MB TIFF file cropped, adjusted, and converted to JPEG

Photographer: Timothy O'Sullivan

Transwiki details

Transferred from en.wikipedia 2003-11-26 (first version); 2004-12-03 (last version) Original uploader was AlexPlank at en.wikipedia

Later version(s) were uploaded by JeLuF, MarkSweep at en.wikipedia.

Author



Description	American photographer Civilian member of a geographical survey commanded by 1st Lieutenant George Montague Wheeler of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Date of birth/death	circa 1840	14 January 1882
Location of birth/death	Ireland	Staten Island
Work location	United States
Authority control	WorldCat

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Object location	37° 22′ 43.00″ N, 78° 47′ 47.00″ W	View this and other nearby images on: Google Maps - Google Earth - OpenStreetMap - Proximityrama	( Info)37.378611;-78.796389

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