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Thomas Nast|Harper's Weekly

A Night Scout in the Southwest – Surprise of an Outpost, and Survey of the Rebel Guns (from "Harper's Weekly")

April 4, 1863
Wood engraving
27.7 × 40.7 cm (10.9 × 16 in)

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