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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
A scene in winter camp. Two soldiers are sitting in front of their quarters, which are built with logs plastered with clay, and covered with canvas. The soldier sitting on the drum is playing the old tune on an improvised fiddle made from a cigar box, while the younger sits against the mud chimney, which is crowned with a ploughshare to keep the smoke from blowing into the tent.
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 24.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876.