This eyewitness painting depicts a column of American soldiers moving toward the front lines to relieve exhausted and wounded comrades in Tunisia in 1943. The artist, Peter Sanfilippo, a twenty-three-year-old private from Brooklyn, New York, wrote that the “arrival of a relief column of fresh soldiers … reassures a battered man’s faith in his fellow comrades. The unnerved and wounded are resurrected in spirit to thrive, and thus persevere into a new day.” Peter Sanfilippo/Veterans History Project, Library of Congress.