AGLIMPS of history by Jonathan King. Taken during the Civil War, this photograph is of a slave named Gordon who survived the brutal and permanent scars of slavery. Runaway slave Gordon’s exposed back reveals horrific welts from physical abuse. William D. McPherson and his partner Mr. Oliver captured this powerful image in 1863, after Gordon escaped. For Ten days and eighty miles he used onions to evade hounds. Arriving at the Union Camp in Baton Rouge he then enlisted in the Army.