Scanned by:
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date:
07/16/2013
Notes:
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 11, 2013.
Depicted content:
Image type:
engraving
Original caption:
"There're 'Johnnies,' boys, as sure as you're born." A group of bummers on horse and muleback, huddled in the road, anxiously watching a body of men who have just appeared at a turn in the road.
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 39.
Source note:
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.
"Bummer" was the nickname for Union foraging troops during the federal advance through the South during 1863 and 1864.