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Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 connecticut postcard The People of These UnitedUnion Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 a documentary photograph from the heights above Chattanooga, where Federal troops posed against the long Tennessee horizon in the autumn the war turned. The image carries the stillness of men between battles, the river below them already a Union artery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional