Keywords: Gordon, scourged back, colored slide 2.png Colored glass slide of Gordon slave during medical examination at a Union camp in Baton Rouge On the verso of the mount were the comments of S K Towle Surgeon 30th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers �Few sensation writers ever depicted worse punishments than this man must have received though nothing in his appearance indicates any unusual viciousness �but on the contrary he seems intelligent and well-behaved http //arollingcrone blogspot com/2009/10/scarred-back-of-slave-named-gordon html A Rolling Crone Photograph from March 1863; coloration unknown Photographers William D McPherson and his partner Mr Oliver New Orleans http //4 bp blogspot com/_SRQCmma-Gmc/SsY6t45AxlI/AAAAAAAAASc/DWpekAKWgUA/s1600-h/The+scourged+back jpg Retouched picture cropped adjusted levels removed minor artifacts recreated left and right borders Scewing PD-Art-100 Gordon slave 1863 portrait photographs |