Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Original caption
A scene in winter camp, giving a general idea of the style of huts built and occupied by the troops. A wagon train is coming down the hill from the distant camp on its way to the depot for forage.
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 20.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.