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Image Title: The Rear Guard Nr. Charlottesville, 1864

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

Date: 1864 ca. February 28

Summary: Officers in foreground, possibly directing troop movements.

Notes: Published with descriptive text in: Harpers Weekly, 26 March 1864, pp. 200-201. Part of a series of pictures entitled: Scenes Connected with General Custers Movement Across the Rapidan. Waud describes them as leaving Charlottesville.

Subjects: Custer's Raid into Albemarle County, Va
Custer, George Armstrong,--1839-1876--Military service
Military officers--Union--1860-1870
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles
United States--Virginia--Charlottesville

Original Media: Drawing

Collections: Civil War
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