Civil War Photos

A New Beginning

2009-04-12T20:08:00.001-04:00

Hello,

It's been a while since I've posted here. I've decided to begin again but at a site directly affiliated with my web site brotherswar.com. If you'd like to have a look, please feel free to join me at brotherswar.com/CivilWarBookmarks.

I'll see you there.

Sincerely,

Randy

Post Script

2007-02-26T20:43:00.000-05:00

A few people have been kind enough to ask that I leave this blog on-line for future reference. I will do so. After some time passes, perhaps I will yet begin again.

Thank you.

Randy

Farewell, For Now

2007-02-25T11:33:00.000-05:00

I wish you all a fond Farewell and hope that the sun shines on you always as you continue with your journeys.

Sincerely,

Randy

A Short Break

2007-02-11T21:04:00.000-05:00

I'm going to take a short time off from blogging.

Thanks and hope to be back soon.

Randy

Lee Hill, Fredericksburg

2007-01-21T22:12:00.000-05:00

A 30 pound Parrott Rifle on Telegraph (Lee) Hill on the Fredericksburg Battlefield. As you can see from the muzzle, this gun was not original to the battle, having been forged in 1864 at the West Point Foundry. The barrel weighs in excess of 4,000 pounds and could fire a projectile over four miles.

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The Bloody Angle

2007-01-20T07:15:00.000-05:00

The Bloody Angle in Spotsylvania where soldiers unleashed so ferocious a fire that the bullets themselves sawed down an oak tree 22 inches in diameter during the Battle of Spotsylvania.

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Peace on Earth

2006-12-22T20:39:00.000-05:00

Gettysburg Christmas Tree
My fondest wish is that we all experience the peace and good will that this season brings and that we share as much with each other throughout the new year.

I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.

Sincerely,

Randy

Arlington's Confederate Memorial

2006-12-14T05:36:00.000-05:00

The Confederate Memorial on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, former home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The Arlington National Cemetery web site explains its presence by stating:

"In 1898, President McKinley delivered a speech before the Georgia legislature that urged the U.S. government to assume responsibility for the care of graves of Confederate dead. The first attempt at putting McKinley's idea into practice occurred at Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery. Encouraged by research and petitions presented by Confederate veterans in Washington, D.C., the federal government in 1900 agreed to reinter the Confederate dead buried in gravesites scattered in Washington-area cemeteries into a consolidated Confederate section at Arlington. The success of the experiment at Arlington ultimately led to legislation authorizing the War Department to assume the care of the graves of almost 30,000 Confederates buried in national cemeteries in the North.

This effort on behalf of the Confederate dead provides yet another avenue for studying sectional reconciliation in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By focusing on the valorous deeds of the dead, living veterans from both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line united in celebration of the common soldier. But though the good will created by reburial and re-marking projects was genuine, the Arlington experience also revealed the limits and complexities of sectional reconciliation. The dead were purposefully segregated within cemeteries, causation of the war was studiously ignored in memorial speeches, and white southern women refused to allow the government to interfere with their sacred trust in caring for Confederate graves in the South, all to maintain the careful equilibrium that allowed former Confederates and Yankees to coexist."

Dedicated in 1914, one of the monument's inscriptions reads:

"Not for fame or reward -
Not for place or for rank -
Not lured by ambition -
Or goaded by necessity -
But in simple -
Obedience to duty -
As they understood it
These men suffered all -
Sacrificed All -
Dared all - And Died"
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Source: Arlington National Cemetery

The Men from Maine

2006-12-06T20:52:00.000-05:00

The 20th Maine Monument on the southern face of Little Round Top, Gettysburg Battlefield.

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Manassas Monument

2006-12-03T16:14:00.000-05:00

One of the earliest monuments erected to the men who sacrificed during the American Civil War. Union veterans placed this monument on the fields of Manassas / Bull Run in 1865. The inscription reads simply, "In Memory of the Patriots who fell at Bull Run July 21 1861". This view shows a portion on the monument as seen through one of the windows of the Judith Henry house.

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Judith Henry

2006-11-28T21:39:00.000-05:00

The grave site of Judith Henry in front of her newly reconstructed home on Henry House Hill on the Manassas Battlefield. Judith was in her mid eighties when, during the battle of first Manassas, a Union shell tore off most of her foot. She died shortly there after.

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Jackson at Sunset

2006-11-25T08:33:00.000-05:00

Statue of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson at sunset, Manassas National Battlefield, Virginia.

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The Chaos of Battle

2006-11-16T07:01:00.000-05:00

The above images provide a small glimpse into the chaos of the battlefield and what soldiers endured as they fought for our nation's identity. The first offers an idea of just how the bullets swarmed during some of these colossal conflicts. These malformed pieces of lead are minnie balls found on the Petersburg battlefield that collided mid-air.

The other image shows a ramrod shot through a fence rail as a soldier, in his haste or confusion, forgot to remove it from the gun barrel before firing. This can be seen in the Fredericksburg Visitor's Center.

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Colonel George Willard

2006-11-12T19:04:00.000-05:00

A rarely visited marker on the Gettysburg Battlefield noting the location where Colonel George Willard lost his life leading his brigade into the maelstrom wrought by General William Barksdale's Mississippians. The marker reads,

Colonel G L Willard
125th
N.Y. Infantry,
was killed
at this place on the
evening of July 2d, 1863,
while leading in a charge
3d Brig. 3d Div. 2d Corps
His men finally stopped the onrushing Southerners. At the end of the battle, the Division commander, Brigadier General Alexander Hays, would say of Willard's men, "The history of this brigade's operations is written in blood...The loss of this brigade amounts to one-half the casualties in the division."

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The Cashtown Inn

2006-11-05T12:18:00.000-05:00

According to the current Cashtown Inn website, this witness to the events of 1863 was "Built circa 1797. The Cashtown Inn served as the first stagecoach stop west of Gettysburg.

During the Gettysburg campaign of 1863, the Inn served as Confederate headquarters for General A.P. Hill."

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North Carolina on South Mountain

2006-11-04T14:17:00.000-05:00

Deep in the woods along the ridge of Maryland's South Mountain rests this monument to the men of North Carolina who gave their lives during the Confederate's first campaign into the north. Dedicated only 3 years ago, it highlights the darker sides of war often painted over by a preferred romanticism. The inscription reads:

In memory of the North Carolinians that fought at or near here September 14,1862.
The lst, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 23rd, & 30th NC Infantry Regiments and the 1st NC Artillery, Manly and Reilly Batteries.

General D. H. Hill was in command of the 10,000 Confederates with elements of Longstreet's Corps arriving in the afternoon. The fighting here at Fox's Gap saw one of the few instances of actual hand-to-hand combat of the war. The 13th was totally surrounded after the mortal wounding of Brig. Gen. Samuel Garland just a few yards from here. Two days after the battle, 58 Confederate dead were dumped down the well of farmer Daniel Wise located NW. In 1874, they were re-interred in Hagerstown, Md.

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Old Simon

2006-10-26T20:07:00.000-04:00

Old Simon, the massive forty-four foot seven inch, 250-ton center statue in the Antietam National Cemetery, honors the individual soldiers who died during this dreadful conflict. Dedicated September 17, 1880, this monument officially bears the name "The Private Soldier". He forever stands watch over the 4,776 Union soldiers buried on these grounds while he faces North, towards home.

At Old Simon's base, a few simple words speak clearly of the men whose ground he shares and whose memory he honors.

"Not for themselves,
but for their country.
September 17, 1862"
Of the 1,836 unknown soldiers buried in this cemetery, the United States National Park Service sadly notes, "All of the unknowns are marked with small square stones. These stones contain the grave number, and if you look closely on a few stones, a small second number represents how many unknowns are buried in that grave."

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The War Correspondents Arch

2006-10-22T23:46:00.000-04:00

The War Correspondents Memorial Arch in Crampton's Gap along South Mountain in Maryland.

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Iron in the Fall

2006-10-18T21:03:00.000-04:00

Monument to the 2nd Wisconsin of the Union's Iron Brigade along McPherson's Ridge at Gettysburg.

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Always on Watch

2006-10-16T06:59:00.000-04:00

Monument to the 96th Pennsylvania looking towards the Wheatfield at the Gettysburg National Military Park.

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Fields in the Fog

2006-10-10T06:17:00.000-04:00

During a recent visit to Sharpsburg, I discovered a heavy, thick fog which lent an eerie feeling to the battlefield, as if the smoke of battle lingered still.

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Confederate Pyramid

2006-10-06T09:28:00.000-04:00

This 90-foot tall monument stands proudly in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond Virginia. Built in 1869 shortly after the war, it honors the memory of the 18,000 Confederate dead buried on these grounds.

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Antietam Creek from Burnside's Bridge

2006-10-01T01:14:00.000-04:00

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The 24th Michigan at Gettysburg

2006-09-27T19:02:00.000-04:00

Monument to the 24th Michigan Infantry
on McPherson's Ridge at Gettysburg
Elsewhere on the field, along the southwestern edge of Culp's Hill, a small marker notes the location where the remnants of the 24th Michigan dug in after a brutal first days fighting. The simple stone reads:
24TH REGIMENT
MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
IRON BRIGADE
OF THE 496 MEN WHO WENT INTO
BATTLE ON JULY 1, 1863, 99 ANSWERED
ROLL CALL HERE ON THE MORNING
OF JULY 2 - 3 1863.
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St. Peter's Catholic Church, Harpers Ferry, WV

2006-09-23T16:02:00.000-04:00

St. Peter's Catholic Church
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
St. Peter's Church, erected in 1833, still stands on a ridge in beautiful Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The townspoeple carved the steps leading up to the church directly out of the hillside, composed almost entirely of shale. Despite Harpers Ferry changing hands nearly 14 times during the Civil War, the church survived the bombardments that damaged many of the structures throughout the rest of the town and served as a hospital for the casualties of both sides.

You can read about the history of this church by clicking here.

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Harpers Ferry, WV

2006-09-20T05:47:00.000-04:00

An aerial view of Harpers Ferry West Virginia from Maryland Heights. In the lower left hand corner of the picture you can see "John Brown's Fort", or the Harpers Ferry Armory’s fire engine and guard house, where abolitionist John Brown was captured by troops of the 2nd United States Cavalry led by Lt. Colonel Robert E. Lee. In 1859, John Brown had hoped to capture the weapons at the arsenal and insight a slave insurrection throughout the south. He was instead hanged for murder, inciting a rebellion, and treason. He would famously write just prior to his death, "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

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In Memory of the Fallen

2006-09-11T06:21:00.000-04:00

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Loss of the Innocents

2006-09-06T06:02:00.000-04:00

An all too common image from a 19th Century Cemetery plot, Civil War era families knew the reality of death before the onset of war. This grave marker honors the memory of a family's 6 month old child.

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Codori Farm Sunrise

2006-09-04T20:26:00.000-04:00

Although in this image the leaves have gone for the winter and the fields surrendered their summer green, few places on earth share the purity and simplistic beauty of Gettysburg at sunrise.

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Antietam's New York Monument

2006-09-01T20:56:00.000-04:00

New York Monument at
Antietam National Battlefield
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Miller's Corn Field

2006-08-30T22:11:00.000-04:00

Farmer Miller's Cornfield
Antietam National Battlefield
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Site of Stonewall Jackson's Passing

2006-08-26T22:19:00.000-04:00

The out building on the Chandler Plantation at Guinea Station
where Stonewall Jackson died.
The room in which Stonewall Jackson left
to "rest under the shade of the trees".
"General Orders
Hdqrs. Army of Northern Virginia,

No. 61.
May 11, 1863.

With deep grief, the commanding general announces to the army the death of Lieutenant General T. J. Jackson, who expired on the 10th instant, at 3.15 p.m. The daring, skill, and energy of this great and good soldier, by the decree of an all-wise Providence, are now lost to us. But while we mourn his death, we feel that his spirit still lives, and will inspire the whole army with his indomitable courage and unshaken confidence in God as our hope and our strength. Let his name be a watchword to his corps, who have followed him to victory on so many fields. Let officers and soldiers emulate his invincible determination to do everything in the defense of our beloved country.

R. E. LEE,

General."

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Major General John Fulton Reynolds

2006-08-25T21:22:00.000-04:00

Equestrian statue of Major General John F. Reynolds
at Gettysburg National Military Park
A 19th Century photograph of a marker noting
the spot where General Reynolds was killed,
July 1, 1863.
Statue of a proud, determined John Reynolds who would die on these grounds defending his home state of Pennsylvania. Just beneath is an early photograph taken in Reynolds' Woods a few paces south of the fence now bordering the McPherson Farm.

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In Honor of Judi's Great-Grandfather

2006-08-24T21:03:00.000-04:00

Shiloh's Bloody Lane
Shiloh's Bloody Pond
Roy White, a friend of mine who had relatives who fought with General Braxton Bragg in Tennessee, took these pictures while visitng the Battlefield at Shiloh.

Judi, who has kindly left several nice comments about this blog, also had a relative who served on these grounds. For you both, I post these pictures in honor of your family members who helped to build our history.

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Major General George Gordon Meade

2006-08-17T20:23:00.000-04:00

The modest gravesite of Union Major General George Gordon Meade
at Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery.
On July 2, 1863, as General George Meade rode the lines of battle, he noted a Confederate force approaching a gap in his line along Cemetery Ridge. His son described what happened next. "The General realizes the situation but too well. He straightens himself up in his stirrups as do also the aids who now ride closer to him, bracing themselves up to meet the crisis. It is in the minds of those who follow him that he is going to throw himself into the breach." General John Newton would arrive with reinforcements in time to fill the gap and save that portion of the Union line on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

General Meade now rests peacefully under this modest stone which reads, "He did his work bravely and is at rest."

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Quote source: "Gettysburg" by Stephen W. Sears

The Wheat Field & the 116th PA

2006-08-13T21:03:00.000-04:00

Monument to the 116th Pennsylvania near the Wheat Field at Gettysburg.
According to the book, "Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments", an officer walking over the battlefield came upon a young soldier from the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry. Although killed during the battle, the trace a slight smile remained on his face. The inspiration for this beautiful monument came from that young soldier.

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Barlow's Knoll

2006-08-10T22:09:00.000-04:00

Barlow's Knoll and the statue of General Francis Channing Barlow at sunset. Gettysburg National Military Park.

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Gettysburg National Cemetery

2006-08-06T22:29:00.000-04:00

A Holy Place

2006-08-06T19:47:00.000-04:00

St. Paul's Church in Richmond Virginia in which Confederate President Jefferson Davis received General Robert E. Lee's April 2, 1865 note which read, "I advise that all preparations be made for leaving Richmond tonight."

This place of worship also served as one of the many places where Lee set a stirring, public example for how to approach reconciliation. {Click below for a History Channel re-telling of this story.}

A Perspective on Robert E. Lee

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Slave Auction Block

2006-08-06T07:18:00.000-04:00

The remains of a slave auction block on a street corner in Fredericksburg Virginia.

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The 90th Pennyslvania Monument

2006-07-30T16:56:00.000-04:00

The unique and recently restored 90th Pennsylvania Monument along the southern edge of Miller's Cornfield at the Antietam Battlefield. The kettle reads,

Here fought
the
90th Penna (Phila.)
Sept. 17, 1862
A Hot Place.
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John Burns

2006-07-29T22:51:00.000-04:00

Statue of 69 year old John Burns on the McPherson Farm at Gettysburg. With his flintlock musket, the old patriot "fell in with them Wisconsin fellers" and fought with the Army of the Potomac on July 1, 1863.

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Bloody Lane at Sunset

2006-07-19T22:01:00.000-04:00

The 132nd Pennsylvania monument along Antietam's Bloody Lane at sunset.

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President Jefferson Davis, CSA

2006-07-16T18:00:00.000-04:00

Grave site of Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.

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The Tragedy of Cold Harbor

2006-07-15T09:07:00.000-04:00

Remains of Confederate breastworks.
Cold Harbor Battlefield, Virginia
On June 3, 1864, the Union Army lost up to 7,000 men in less than an hour as they assaulted their heavily entrenched Confederate foes. General Ulysses S. Grant would later state, "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made. I might say the same thing of the assault of the 22d of May, 1863, at Vicksburg. At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side."

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The Mighty Stonewall

2006-07-14T05:59:00.000-04:00

The old Mountain Road where
Stonewall Jackson was mistakenly wounded by his own men.

The remains of the Wilderness Tavern
site of the amputation of General Jackson's left arm.

The burial site on Elwood in the Wilderness
where the Reverend B. Tucker Lacy buried Jackson's left arm.

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A Vision of Peace

2006-07-13T05:56:00.000-04:00

The Maryland Monument through a window in the
Dunker Church, Antietam Battlefield, Maryland
The Maryland Monument on the fields of Antietam stands as a memorial in honor of the citizens from their state who fought on both sides during the American Civil War.

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General James Longstreet

2006-07-12T19:18:00.000-04:00

The Longstreet Equestrian Monument at sunrise.
Pitzer Woods, Gettysburg National Military Park

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Malvern Hill

2006-07-10T21:48:00.000-04:00

Day 1 of the Battle of Gettysburg

2006-07-09T07:33:00.000-04:00

Brigadier General John Buford

The fields over which Brigadier General Joseph Davis Attacked

The Lutheran Theological Seminary Cupola

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The 14th Brooklyn Monument

2006-07-08T13:05:00.000-04:00

The 14th Brooklyn, or the 84th New York, along the southern edge of the Rail Road Cut at Gettysburg National Military Park.

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The Sachs Bridge

2006-07-08T09:39:00.000-04:00

The Sachs Bridge Southwest of Gettysburg, PA
A small plaque on the bridge's stone wall reads, "The Sachs Bridge, built in 1852 by David S. Stoner, is one of the few remaining bridges built using Connecticut architect Ithiel Town’s lattice system of support trusses. Part of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began its retreat to Virginia by crossing the bridge after the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863. In 1938, the Pennsylvania Highway Department determined that the Sachs Bridge was the most historic covered bridge in the State. It was closed to traffic in 1968 and listed in the National Register of historic places in 1980. Floodwaters swept it from its abutments on June 19, 1996. The County of Adams rehabilitated the bridge by supporting its trusses with steel beams and by raising its elevation three feet."

Inside the Sachs Bridge showing the lattice trusses
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Our Ever Changing Fields

2006-07-07T21:50:00.000-04:00

The United States National Park Service continues their excellent work restoring the Gettysburg Battlefield to its original 1863 appearance. I have pictured here just a few recent examples.

Site of former Ford Dealership on Howard Avenue, Gettysburg, PA
Above you can see what remains of the former Ford Dealership on Howard Avenue as of July 1, 2006. Barlow's Knoll rests just out of site at the end of the long line of mouments.

Oak Hill looking down the Union lines on Oak Ridge.
In this view, unfortunately taken looking into the sun, you can see more of the extensive tree clearing that has transformed many views of this battlefield. Standing on the eastern slope of Oak Hill, you can now clearly see down the location of General Baxter's Union Brigade on Oak Ridge (along the line of monuments in the distant center).

I owe a debt of thanks to a good friend for giving me a guided tour of the changes.

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The Beginning

2006-07-07T21:10:00.000-04:00

The Angle at Gettysburg before sunrise
Welcome. Thanks for stopping by. This blog will primarily contain the photos of Eastern Theater Battlefields along with those featured on its sister blog. For those who find unique enjoyment in the photos of our Civil War Battlefields, this blog is for you.

Sit back, enjoy, and please, feel free to let me know what you think.

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