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71st OVI Reunion photo - possibly Ludlow Falls, Ohio

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Re: 71st OVI Reunion photo - location IS West Milton, Ohio

write2taylor  (View posts) Posted: 27 Jan 2008 9:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Campbell
Hi, the ribbons do not have their names, individually. These are standard printed ribbons - in fact, one guy is sitting in front holding a box-full that must represent veterans who aren't present (left-over ribbons).

I have enlarged it until the ribbons pixelize, making them unreadable. Impossible.

I believe the date is June 14 or 16, 1897 - possibly 1896. This is based on the graying beards and opinions of others who thought perhaps even into 1900... however, I am confident those first two numbers are not 19 in the year...

Also, it looks like the reunion number has two words, like twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth - even msybe twenty-seventh.

My GG grandfather John W. Campbell served in Company G; enlisted at 19 on 1 Nov. 1861, was discharged for disability in Gallatin, TN on 13 Feb. 1864. He died in 1911.

I used to work in the printing/graphic arts industry, so I have a professional magnifier. It is the quality of the image that is inferior, but it is over 100 years old!
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