"The Rear of the Column," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail, zoomable image

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2013.
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engraving
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Stragglers and wagon guards are bringing up the rear, while the wagon train is seen coming down the distant hill, with flankers thrown out to protect it from the enemy's horsemen.
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Edwin Forbes, Life Studies of the Great Army, A Historical Work of Art in Copper-Plate Etching ...(New York: Edwin Forbes, 1876), plate 17.

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Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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