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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Dozens of Civil War soldiers holding muskets stand in front of a two-story building. More men sit on a fence, while others stand on a second-story balcony.

Appomattox Courthouse

Soldiers mill around the outside of Appomattox Courthouse, Va., in 1865.

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