"Fording a River," 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 11, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
Infantry are wading the stream at the ford, with a line of cavalry posted below to catch any unlucky soldier who may be carried away by the force of the current.
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 38.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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