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Capt Nathan Appleton

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1860s,

19th century,

5th Massachusetts Artillery,

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Appomattox Court House,

Civil War Captain,

Grant’s Overland Campaign,

Harvard University alumni,

Massachusetts history,

Nathan Appleton,

photo of the week,

Robert E. Lee surrender,

Union Army officer,

Victorian fashion,

white top hat,

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White top hat in hand, the stylish Appleton joins the 5th Mass Artillery in 1863 after graduating from Harvard. He is wounded during Grant’s Overland Campaign of 1864, but is present at Appomattox for Lee’s surrender.

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