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Gen.
Charles Griffin (as Captain), career officer in the United States Army and a Union general in the American Civil War. He rose to command a corps in the
Army of the Potomac and fought in many of the key campaigns in the
Eastern Theater.
Photo credit: Brady-Handy Photograph Collection