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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
The army crossing a river and closing up on column on the hill, while the advance is pushing forward into the woods, which have caught fire with exploding cartridges.
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 5.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.