I Surrender If You Promise To Protect This Young Lady

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I Surrender If You Promise To Protect This Young Lady
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I Surrender If You Promise To Protect This Young Lady

Date1887
Illustration Citation"How the Yankees Came to Blackwood," by Louise Herrick, in St. Nicholas, January 1888
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 11 7/8 × 12 1/2 in. (30.2 × 31.8 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-298
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Label TextLouise Herrick narrates an autobiographical story about her childhood experiences in Virginia during the Civil War. Edward Kemble illustrates an episode when a Confederate townsman prevents her from being swept away in the chaos when Union forces commandeer the area.
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