File:Scourged Back cdv by McAllister & Brothers, c1863.jpg
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current | 15:06, 20 December 2021 | 3,674 × 3,000 (2.49 MB) | Scewing | ((Information |Description=Carte de Visite portrait of Gordon, "The Scourged Back." 2.5" x 4". On the verso is printed an extract of a letter from S.K. Towle, a surgeon in the 30th Massachusetts Infantry, to the surgeon-general of the state of Massachusetts, dated April 16, 1863, in full: "I enclose a picture taken by an artist here, from life, of a Negro's back, exhibiting the scars from an old whipping. Few sensation writers ever depicted worse punishments than this man must... |
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