"Tattoo in Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

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"Tattoo in Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
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engraving
Original caption
Tattoo in Camp. A moonlight scene. The regimental drum-corps is beating "tattoo," the signal for the men to retire to their tents. "Taps," the signal for "lights out," follows half and hour later.
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 1.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, available at http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40608
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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