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Full-page wood engraving in unidentified publication, comprising seven smaller images. Central image shows Indians dancing in front of fire at night, surrounded by watching soldiers. Tipis, tents and covered wagons are in background. On either side of this image are two small circular images, of the soldiers camp at night and sunrise. The top images include African-American men dancing (one in soldier's uniform), watched by Indians and soldiers; and a portrait of an Indian man wearing a hat adorned with feathers and holding a handful of peacock feathers. Bottom image shows soldiers on the trail, leaving behind a dead horse and vultures. Caption on bottom reads "Camp Life in the West. During one of the pauses in the active part of the Missouri campaign our special artist sent us some sketches which belong more to the romance of war than its struggle. We have formed some of these into this page, which cannot fail to interest our readers. Among them is a most characteristic scene in which two phases of civilization meet. We allude to the sketch where the Indian warriors are giving a war dance by firelight in the presence of the officers and soldiers of General Asboth's division. Sad and suggestive spectacle! Pagans and Christians traveling as companions on the same war path. The companion sketches of sunrise and midnight outside the tent are also equally thought provoking; while, as though to show the folly and vanity of the whole gigantic struggle, the dead horse, the vultures, and...
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