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MAGAZINE MONDAY | By 1864, eight decades after the Revolution’s end, only a dozen or so veterans survived. Two Connecticut brothers tracked some of them down, and captured their portraits as cartes de visite. Read more:
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Last Men of the Revolution
Photos capture the last living faces of the War of Independence.
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