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[Lieutenant Louis von Trebra, Captain [Lieutenant] Adolph Metzner, and Lieutenant Walker, Tennessee River near Battle Creek, Alabama, August 1862]
Summary
Drawing appears to show the rescue of two soldiers stranded near the Tennessee River during a flood.
Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake.
Code on mat (source unverified): II-53.
Title on mat (source unverified): Lieutenant Louis von Trebra, Captain Adolph Metzner, and Lieutenant Walker to the rescue, Tennessee River near Battle Creek, Alabama.
Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress.
Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:188).
Blood shed in this war: Civil War illustrations by Captain Adolph Metzner, 32nd Indiana / Michael A. Peake. Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010, p. 87.
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Date
01/01/1862
Location
tennessee river
Source
Library of Congress
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