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Celebrating Mass in an Army Camp
Credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Original Author: Mathew Brady Studio
Created: 1861
Medium: Albumen photographic print on card mount

Celebrating Mass in an Army Camp

Members of the largely Irish American 9th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment pose with their Roman Catholic chaplain in front of a makeshift altar at Camp Cass, Virginia, in 1861.

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