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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, July 19, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
Halt in Line of Battle. The line, having advanced and driven the enemy, whose dead is lying in front, is "dressing up," while a reinforcing column can be seen coming over the hill in the distance. Shells from the enemy's batteries are bursting in the air.
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 17.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, available at http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40600
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.