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Lot 543
[CIVIL WAR]. KRAUS, C.A., artist. J.H. BUFFORD & SONS, lithographers. Confederate Prison Pen at Salisbury, North Carolina. Taken in 1864. 
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[CIVIL WAR]. KRAUS, C.A., artist. J.H. BUFFORD & SONS, lithographers. Confederate Prison Pen at Salisbury, North Carolina. Taken in 1864. 

Chromolithograph, 1886, image 33 7/8 x 22 3/4 in. (sheet 37 1/2 x 27 1/8 in.), on wove paper, minor soil, short marginal tears with evidence of repair, framed to 45 x 35 in., not examined out of frame. 

An illustration of the infamous Confederate prison, compiled from a sketch made on site in 1864, probably following its occupation by federal forces. The lithograph presents the prison camp set up on the grounds of a large "cotton factory," in which the prisoners had to work. It also shows the tents and pits dug into the ground where Union soldiers were forced to live. A key in the lower margin identifies 12 sites, including an "old well," "Brick Houses used for Officers Prisons," and "Hole from which Prisoners tunneled and escaped."

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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