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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
A Cavalry Charge. An advance against the enemy's guns, which are posted on the hill. The enemy's line has met the charge, and is trying to save the guns, which are hurrying to the rear.
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 27.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available at http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40598
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.