"A New Beginning" 1863 (1 Viewer)

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A group of enslaved African Americans, fleeing a Virginia tobacco plantation whose owner has already fled from the oncoming Yankees, stop to ask directions to Union lines from a picket of the 5th NY Volunteer Infantry ("Duryée's Zouaves").

Figures from Wm. Hocker sets 322, 325, and 378
 

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Scenes like this one appeared in the pictorial press such as Harper's Weekly throughout the war.
 

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