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- GLC#
- GLC07201
- Type
- Images
- Date
- May 1863
- Author/Creator
- McCasky, J.E., fl. 1863
- Title
- [Captive soldier in Libby Prison]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 art original : oil on canvas Height: 78.5 cm, Width: 73 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Oil on canvas, unstretched, of older Union soldier, with white hair and a mustache, seated on the ground in a despairing pose, holding his hand to his forehead, near a rifle. Signed at lower right "J. E. McCasky [or McCosky], NY / Libby Prison / May [?] 1863." The soldier is silhouetted behind the unpainted background. Fictionalized image, possibly intended for illustration.
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