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The Rescue–Sergeants Newton and Jasper of Marion's Brigade, rescuing American prisoners from a British guard, who had stacked their muskets while resting near a spring, South Carolina, 1779.

1876
Hand-colored lithograph
22.6 × 31.5 cm (8.9 × 12.4 in)

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