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Garry Adelman
Garry Adelman is the vice president of the Center for Civil War Photography and the director of history and education at the Civil War Trust.
Why Are These Soldiers Reading
The Atlantic
During a Cockfight?
A Civil War historian zooms into a plate-glass negative and finds something unexpected.
Garry Adelman
Nov 15, 2013
