Refugees leaving the old homestead

[ca. 1861–1865]

From "War Memories" catalog: This was one of the familiar scenes during the war. Union families were persecuted by the Rebels and "bushwhackers," and to escape this persecution and probable death, they would, when our troops came near enough to protect them, hastily gather up a little furniture, pile it on to an old wagon, and bidding good-by to their home, take up their march northward toward the land of freedom.