File:Scourged Back cdv by McAllister & Brothers, c1863.jpg

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Description Carte de Visite portrait of Gordon, "The Scourged Back." 2.5" x 4". On the verso is printed an extract of a letter from S.K. Towle, a surgeon in the 30th Massachusetts Infantry, to the surgeon-general of the state of Massachusetts, dated April 16, 1863, in full: "I enclose a picture taken by an artist here, from life, of a Negro's back, exhibiting the scars from an old whipping. Few sensation writers ever depicted worse punishments than this man must have received, though nothing in his appearance indicates any unusual viciousness-but on the contrary, he seems INTELLIGENT AND WELL-BEHAVED." F.W. Mercer, Asst. Surgeon, 47 M.V."
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Carte de Visite portrait of Gordon, "The Scourged Back." 2.5" x 4", 1863

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