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Lot 544
[CIVIL WAR]. KELLER, G.F., artist. SHOBER & CARQUEVILLE, lithographers. Let us Forgive, but not Forget. Andersonville Prison memorial.  
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[CIVIL WAR]. KELLER, G.F., artist. SHOBER & CARQUEVILLE, lithographers. Let us Forgive, but not Forget. Andersonville Prison memorial.  

Lithograph, 1884, image approx. 25 x 19 3/8 in. (visible 27 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. sheet), on wove paper, some brown spotting, framed to 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 in., not examined out of frame. 

A birds-eye-view of the notorious Confederate prison Andersonville, with areas and key figures labled, with a short description of each below. Surrounded also by six vignettes of former prisoners with accounts of their suffering. The print, by an artist noted to be a GAR member, is "Dedicated to my Fellow Survivors and to all Sons of Veterans, in Memory of 14,000 Martyrs who perished in Andreson Ville Priosn [and] in Stockade and Hospital." 

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents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