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File Details: AKUOm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 48.9 Mb

Image ID: AKUO

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1863-1864

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

horse

Locations & Lines:

Fredericksburg VA; Virginia

Military Units:

Army of the James; US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Doctor Bunnell’s Embalming (Fredericksburg VA)

Sources:

Library of Congress

Photographic War History. The War For The Union. 1861-1865. No. 2529. Embalming Building near Fredericksburg, Va. This old barn near Fredericksburg, Va., was used as an embalming building. Here the bodies of the dead soldiers that were to be sent North to their friends were embalmed. More than a hundred bodies were sometimes brought here in one day. During the first battle of Fredericksburg, in December, 1862, several hundred bodies were here at one time to be embalmed. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Dr. Bunnell’s embalming establishment in the field. [Army of the James].

Anthony No. 2529.

Etched onto negative: 2529.

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