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Custer receiving the flag of truce--Appomatox [sic]--1865 – Vintage Wall Art

Custer receiving the flag of truce--Appomatox [sic]--1865, [1865 April 8] — historic drawing
Custer receiving the flag of truce--Appomatox [sic]--1865, [1865 April 8]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Custer receiving the flag of truce--Appomatox [sic]--1865

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Custer is shown accepting a flag of truce at Appomattox, a moment that signaled the Confederate army's collapse in the last days of the Civil War. The record names R. M. Sims, a Confederate officer who carried the truce request, so the drawing records a specific exchange rather than a generic battlefield scene. It is a pencil sketch on gray-blue paper, a modest medium that suits a quick, on-the-spot record. Custer, then a young Union cavalry commander, was among the officers whose pursuit cut off Lee's retreat, and the surrender terms were reached at Appomattox Court House within a day of this encounter.

Created / published[1865 April 8]
Medium1 drawing on grey-blue paper : pencil ; 20.8 x 30.7 cm. (sheet).
GenrePortraits 1860-1870.Drawings American 1860-1870.
SubjectsCuster, George Armstrong,--1839-1876--Military service. Sims, R. M.--Military service. Appomattox Campaign, 1865. Cavalry--Union--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Surrenders--Confederate.United States--Virginia--Appomattox
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 991 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111385

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