With Malice Toward None

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An Arrival in Camp—Under the Proclamation of Emancipation

Arrival in Camp—under the Emancipation Proclamation (157.00.00)

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As Union armies moved into the South, thousands of slaves fled to their military camps. Although some Union officers sent the runaways back to their masters, others allowed them to remain with the troops, using them as a work force and considering them “contraband of war.” Artist Alfred Waud made this sketch of wandering freedmen from a photograph the day the final Emancipation Proclamation was issued, January 1, 1863. The sketch was published in Harper’s Weekly on January 31, 1863.
As Union armies moved into the South, thousands of slaves fled to their military camps. Although some Union officers sent the runaways back to their masters, others allowed them to remain with the troops, using them as a work force and considering them “contraband of war.” Artist Alfred Waud made this sketch of wandering freedmen from a photograph the day the final Emancipation Proclamation was issued, January 1, 1863. The sketch was published in <em>Harper’s Weekly</em> on January 31, 1863.