"A Race for Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

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"A Race for Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail
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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
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engraving
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Newsboys passing the picket station while on the road to camp with the latest news.
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 6.

Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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