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The collection consists of photographs of family members and military friends of Frederick W. Benteen. His commission paper
is included as well. It is dated 1864 November 23 and commissions him to brigadier general. Also includes is a bound, gilt-edged
album of religious pictures; the folded American flag that draped the coffin of Mrs. Anita Benteen Mitchell), Benteen's graddaughter,
in 1978; and a tattered American flag that appears to be a 10th Missouri Cavalry flag, flown during the Civil War and was
donated after the initial gift in 1973.
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