Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the valley

General Custer, with aides, presenting Confederate flags captured during battle of Cedar Creek.

Signed lower right: A.R.W.

Title inscribed below image.

Confederate flag sketched upper left. Inscribed upper left: Flag when perfect. Most of them very ragged. Inscribed vertically over one flag: Blue ground white stars.

Inscribed upper left: Custer very fashionable/ men exceedingly rough.

Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 12, 1864, p. 721. Sketch done in front of the war department in Washington, D.C.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.203).

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864.

Reference print available in Ray, Plate 93 (p. 172).

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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