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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, July 19, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
A Distant Battle. Seen at distance of about six miles. In the foreground is an abandoned breastwork, and on the road to the left a column of troops is shown hurrying to the sound of distant cannon.
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 27.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.