New York Rifles firing on each other, September 9, 1861, at Willett's Point, New York, artist's impression

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 3, 2011.

Depicted ContentNear New York City, the desertion of an entire company from the New York Rifles ends in a firefight

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Original caption

A detachment of the New York Rifles firing on Company B of the same Regiment near Willett's Point, September 9, 1861

Source citation

Lewis Shepheard Moat,Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War (New York: Mrs. F. Leslie, 1895), 137.

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