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| Title | Meade's Headquarters, 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness to Appomattox |
| Author | Theodore Lyman |
| Editor | George Russell Agassiz |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Historical Society, 1922 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 10, 2006 |
| Length | 371 pages |
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