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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, August 10, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
The fields on all sides are covered with troops who are engaging in cooking supper, the column in the road marching on and disappearing over the hill in the distance.
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 21.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.