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"After the Battle—The Rebels in Possession of the Field."

This gruesome double-page scene in Harper’s Weekly showed local Maryland women joining men in looting the bodies of dead Union soldiers after the battle of Antietam in September 1862.

Source: Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly, October 25, 1862—thomasnast.com.

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