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Serving out rations (coffee, bread & meat) to the exchanged prisoners on board the New York

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Serving out rations (coffee, bread & meat) to the exchanged prisoners on board the New York

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Title inscribed on verso.
Sketch of an emaciated prisoner on verso. Inscribed below sketch: a white[?]man from nature [the figure appears to be an African-American].
DRWG/US-Waud (W.), no 42 verso (A size) is a study for this image.
Published in: Harper's Weekly, December 10, 1864, p. 789.
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings File O.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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01/01/1864
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Waud, William, -1878, artist
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