Prisoners from the front (1866) established Winslow Homer's reputation for spare truthfulness. But while the Union officer is depicted as clear-eyed and upright, the surrendering Confederate soldiers are mere caricatures—a slouching dullard, hands in pocket; a beaten patriarch; a defiant cavalier.
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