The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp

Topic: Soldiers
museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum
objectType: Sculpture
Date: patented 1864
Creator: John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

This sculpture shows a barefoot Black man navigating a Southern swamp as he attempts to escape his enslavers. He risks his own life by stopping to aid a White Union soldier who has been wounded behind Confederate lines.