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Civil War Illustrations

Burying the Dead and Burning Horses 

crowd of people carrying dead bodies in front of a row of houses and bonfires in the distance

Caption: The army of the Potomac-Burying dead and burning horses at Fairoaks Station, Virginia.-Sketched by Mr. A. R. Waud. (See page 463 [for related story].

Source: Illustration from Harper's Weekly, July 19, 1862, page 453.