George Custer and Friend Confederate Lt. Washington-- Part 2

"A camp photographer, seeing the two seated on a log, chatting, was preparing to photograph them, when young Washington called out to a small darkey standing near, and placed the child between them, saying the picture ought to be called 'Both sides, the cause.'

The "darkey" was a young slave boy who did not appear to be too happy to be there.

"And so it appeared in Harper's Weekly."

Photograph of Custer and Confederate Lt. James Barroll Washington (prisoner) and 2nd Lt. Custer with a young slave sitting between them.

The two men had been friends at the USMA before the war, now on different sides.

An Interesting Photo.  --Old Secesh