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Title: Survivors of "the Blue and the Gray"
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Four survivors of "the Blue and the Gray" met again on common ground. They sat together at the Coliseum to join in paying tribute to America's World War heroes in Armistice Day exercises. There were three of the Blue, the Union men, and one of the Gray. Photo shows, from left to right: second row, Capt. Eugene Merrick, 79, who fought with the 147th Illinois Infantry; Col. J. C. Brooks, 85, 20th Tennessee Infantry; A. H. Cain, 86, 50th Missouri Infantry; and Corp. Joseph Carter, 92, 50th Missouri Infantry. Photo dated: November 12, 1934.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045312
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1991.
CARL0000049327
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15746
Subject: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Veterans
Armistice Day
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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