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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 11, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
A scene behind the breastworks. Officers and me are grouped about the guns, while some of the latter are playing cards, cooking, and amusing themselves generally. In the centre of the picture a squad of prisoners is seen coming in from the front under guard.
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 34.
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.