Captured by Morgan's cavalry at La Vergne, Tennessee, 1863
Summary
Drawing shows Adjutant General Carl Schmitt, Lieutenant Colonel William Mank and General August Willich's orderly Brown traveling to Washington, D.C., to meet Willich, just released from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Men are shown carrying parole slips (source: Peake).
Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake.
"N.52" upper left corner on sheet.
Code on mat (source unverified): III-69.
Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress.
Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:188).
Blood shed in this war: Civil War illustrations by Captain Adolph Metzner, 32nd Indiana / Michael A. Peake. Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010, p. [99].
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