A Fancy Group, in Front of Petersburg, August 1864. [Scene from the American Civil War: cock fight. Two African American men hold fighting cocks, surrounded by seated white soldiers and civilians. Behind is a tent shaded with tree branches]. Albumen print, pl. 76 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, volume ii" (1866).

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