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This is photograph of George A Hitchcock, late Private, 21st Massachusetts Infantry, Antietam veteran and Andersonville survivor. Probably taken about 1868, it was contributed to the Family Search genealogical database by Julie Munsterman [free membership required for access].

Here he is in an earlier photograph probably taken at his initial enlistment in August 1861, on the cover of the 2014 publication of his wartime diary: