Rescue Of The Body Of Colonel Edward
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Rescue Of The Body Of Colonel Edward
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Print Collector
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Rescue of the body of Colonel Edward Baker, Battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, 1861 (1862-1867). Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) was a British-born lawyer and politician who in 1860 was elected Senator representing Oregon. He was killed leading a Union infantry regiment at Ball's Bluff on 21 September 1861. A personal friend of President Lincoln, he was the only sitting US Senator to be killed in action during the Civil War. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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