"A Rainy Day on Picket," 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
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An infantry-man sheltered under a pine tree, with his rifle under his arm to protect it from the rain.
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 8.
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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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