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[African American soldiers mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas]

[African American soldiers mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas]

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[Unidentified young African American soldier in Union uniform]

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[African American soldiers mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas]

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Soldiers return home, greeted by women and children.

Title devised.

Published in: Harper's Weekly, v. 10, 1866 May 19, p. 308.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.162)

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1865.

Reference print available in Ray, Plate 108 (p. 183).

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007.

Exhibit loan 4108-L.

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01/01/1866
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Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
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