Rogers widely marketed his sculpture to the American public in plaster editions. These pieces, which were known as "Rogers Groups", were sold for approximately $14-$15 during the last quarter of the 19th century. Craven writes that "they were the sculpture counterpart of the Currier and Ives prints--an answer to the demand of an art-conscious middle class for works of art at modest prices. Both prints and plaster copies are the mass-produced result of the union of art and the Industrial Revolution." (p. 362) While many plaster casts were produced, bronze examples of the artist's work are very rare.

Rogers worked by creating a clay model which was then cast in bronze by the New York founder Guerin. These bronze master casts were then utilized by the foundry to create the molds from which the plasters were edited. In 1917, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased the master cast of Wounded to the Rear, or One More Shot which was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia in 1876.

The present recently rediscovered bronze cast is probably the example which was presented to Governor Buckingham of Connecticut in 1866 and which is listed as unlocated in Wallace's book, John Rogers: The People's Sculptor (p. 213).