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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
The Reveille on the Line of Battle. Representing the line of battle at daylight. The regimental bugler stands on the crest of the hill, playing reveille to arouse the troops, who are lying on the ground wrapped in their blankets. In the middle distance a battery is seen in position with "caissons" and "limbers" 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 1.
Source note
Cropped the larger image, available at http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40606
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.