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Image Title: Negroes Leaving The Plough, 1864

Creator: Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist

Date: 1864 March

Summary: African Americans on horseback leaving fields to join union troops marching in background.

Notes: Published with descriptive text in: Harper's Weekly, March 26, 1864, p. 200-201, as part of : "Scenes Connected with General Custer's Movement Across the Rapidan." Waud describes the troops as marching north.

Subjects: Farming--1860-1870
Soldiers--1860-1870
United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects

Original Media: Drawing

Collections: Civil War
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