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Night. The sacking of Fredericksburg-- & biovace[sic]of Union troops

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Night. The sacking of Fredericksburg-- & biovace[sic]of Union troops

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Street scene of soldiers plundering, buildings in shambles--some on fire.
Title inscribed above image.
Inscribed lower left: Bivouac. Inscribed on building left margin as identifier: BANK OF VIRGINIA.
Inscribed on verso: Friday Night in Fredericksburg. This night the city was in the wildest confusion sacked by the union troops = houses burned down furniture scattered in the streets = men pillaging in all directions a fit scene for the French revolution and a discrace[sic]to the Union Arms[?] this is my view of what I saw. Lumley.
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Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1862.
Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

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01/01/1862
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Lumley, Arthur, approximately 1837-1912, artist
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