"Returning from Outpost Duty," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
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engraving
Original caption
A scene in winter camp. A squad of troops has just returned from the picket line and are seeking their quarters.
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 15.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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