"The Commissary's Quarters in Winter Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

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"The Commissary's Quarters in Winter Camp," 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
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engraving
Original caption
The commissary sergeant is shown in the foreground weighing out rations of meat for the company cook. The structure on the left is an improvised structure built of pine boughs.
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 2.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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