"Washing Day," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
A soldier with his latest wash hung out to dry on the barrel of his rifle. In the distance the column is seen on the march.
Source citation
Edwin Forbes, Life Studies of the Great Army, A Historical Work of Art in Copper-Plate Etching ...(New York: Edwin Forbes, 1876), plate 8.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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