"Officers' Winter Quarters," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
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engraving
Original caption
Waiting for dinner after dress parade. In the doorway the sergeant of the guard is seen reporting to the officer of the day.
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 13.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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