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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, August 11, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
Pickets trading for coffee and tobacco between the fortified lines during a truce. The enemy's works (protected by abattis and cheveaux-de-frise) are seen in the background, with groups of soldiers on the parapet.
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 35.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.