A Civil War photographic mystery… The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields…no one knows the identities of the girls in the photographs, nor the stories they might tell. The photograph of one girl was found between the bodies of two soldiers—one Union, one Confederate, at Port Royal, Va., 150 years ago this June.

A Civil War photographic mystery…

The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields…no one knows the identities of the girls in the photographs, nor the stories they might tell. The photograph of one girl was found between the bodies of two soldiers—one Union, one Confederate, at Port Royal, Va., 150 years ago this June.

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