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Photographer: Brian Scott
Caption: Albert Augustus Pope (1843-1909)
Additional Description: On August 27, 1862, at the age of nineteen, Albert Pope joined the Union Army attached to the 35th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. The unit crossed the Potomac River on September 7, and just ten days later, fought at Antietam. The 35th Massachusetts confronted a Confederate crossfire and was stranded behind enemy lines with its ammunition exhausted before answering an order to retreat. Seventy-nine men from Pope's unit died that day.
Submitted: October 1, 2015, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p331812
File Size: 0.035 Megabytes

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