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Congressional library offers rare look at Civil War

Margaret E. Wagner, a senior writer and editor at the Library of Congress, is author of the new volume, "The American Civil War: 365 Days." It has nearly 500 photographs, lithograph, paintings, drawings and cartoons from the hundreds of thousands in the library's keeping.

Many are rarely seen and some may never have been published, Wagner said.



5-20-06

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