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Holiday in Camp – Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball" – Sketched by Winslow Homer (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IX)

July 1865
Wood engraving
23.5 × 34.9 cm (9.3 × 13.7 in)

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