E&E News/POLITICO: NPS Orders Removal of Photo of Enslaved Man's 'Scourged Back'

Documents the National Park Service order to remove the 1863 “Scourged Back” photograph — an image of a formerly enslaved man known as Gordon (also Peter), whose scarred back was used by Civil War abolitionists as evidence of slavery’s cruelty — from an exhibit panel at Fort Pulaski National Monument, near Savannah, Georgia. The removal was ordered under the same executive review of “negative” park content driving the Independence Hall and Selma removals. This is the source of record for the Fort Pulaski / “Scourged Back” fact; the NPR article does NOT carry it. Verified firsthand 2026-07-15 (HTTP 200; body carries “The order to remove the photo from an exhibit panel at Fort Pulaski National Monument…”).