The U.S. Calvary taking a lesson in surgery - Farmington, Mississippi, April 22, 1862

Drawing of a rural scene showing a midwife assisting an African American woman in childbirth in front of a log cabin as Union soldiers watch the event.
Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake.
Drawing dated, lower right corner.
Code on mat (source unverified): II-52.
"N.62" upper left corner of sheet.
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. 85.