“Burying soldier who cut barbed wire defence of Adrianople (LOC),” 1913. Source: The Library of Congress on Flickr.
Via Shorpy: “April 1865. ‘Cold Harbor, Va. Collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle.’ Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war, Grant’s Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Wet plate glass negative by John Reekie.” 

Via Shorpy: “April 1865. ‘Cold Harbor, Va. Collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle.’ Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war, Grant’s Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Wet plate glass negative by John Reekie.” 

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