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Civil War photos on display at the History Center

By Jerry Gunn Reporter
Posted 2:37PM on Friday 1st May 2009 ( 15 years ago )
GAINESVILLE - Faces from a war of long ago began to look back through time to visitors Friday at Northeast Georgia History Center.

They are Portraits in Gray, period photographs taken nearly 150 years ago of young men and boys who left home to fight for the South in America's costliest war, the Civil War.

History Center Administrative Coordinator Julie Carson said the photos are haunting.

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Steve Gurr with the Center, conducting a tour of elementary school students, said the images show young the soldiers were
They are Portraits in Gray, period photographs taken nearly 150 years ago of young men and boys who left home to fight for the South

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