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Maker(s):Bellows, George Wesley
Culture:American (1882-1925)
Title:Soldiers in a Barn.
Date Made:1918
Type:Drawing
Materials:lithographic crayon, ink on paper, collage elements
Measurements:Sheet: 19 3/8 in x 25 5/8 in; 49.2 cm x 65.1 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1969.56
Credit Line:Gift of Gordon K. Allison (Class of 1926)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
The work is an 1918 illustration for an article “The Ghost of Sergeant Pelly” by Ben Ames Williams published in Collier’s The National Weekly, New York, April 26, 1919. The article depicts the life and last moments of Sergeant Thomas Pelly of the 141st infantry of the B company while fighting the Germans on a trench line in France.
The caption of the illustration reads: “Every man of them heard it; every man of them recognized it – the dying cries of Sergeant Pelly!”

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