"Through the Wilderness," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
A battery of artillery dragged through the mud during a spring rain-storm.
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 3.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"The Commissary's Quarters in Winter Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
The commissary sergeant is shown in the foreground weighing out rations of meat for the company cook. The structure on the left is an improvised structure built of pine boughs.
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 2.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"The Commissary's Quarters in Winter Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
The commissary sergeant is shown in the foreground weighing out rations of meat for the company cook. The structure on the left is an improvised structure built of pine boughs.
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 2.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

Skirmish at Upperville, Virginia, June 21, 1863, artist's impression, detail

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 7, 2013
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
The Army of the Potomac - Skirmish at Upperville, Virginia, June 21 - From a sketch by Mr. A.R. Waud.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 18, 1863, p. 461.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here. 

Skirmish at Upperville, Virginia, June 21, 1863, artist's impression, zoomable image

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 7, 2013
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
The Army of the Potomac - Skirmish at Upperville, Virginia, June 21 - From a sketch by Mr. A.R. Waud.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 18, 1863, p. 461.

Cavalry skirmishing near Upperville, Virginia, June 21, 1863, artist's impression, detail

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 7, 2013
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
The Army of the Potomac - Skirmish near Upperville - Ashby's Gap in the distance.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 11, 1863, p. 445.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here. 

Cavalry skirmishing near Upperville, Virginia, June 21, 1863, artist's impression, zoomable image

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 7, 2013
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
The Army of the Potomac - Skirmish near Upperville - Ashby's Gap in the distance.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 11, 1863, p. 445.

Battery Powell, Illinois artillery besieging Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 1863, artist's impression, detail

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 7, 2013
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Our works before Vicksburg - Battery Powell - Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis
Source citation

Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 4, 1863, p. 420.

Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
John Wesley Powell, Illinois Light Artillery, the battery commander, later became famous for his explorations of the Grand Canyon and as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. He had already lost an arm at Shiloh. 

Battery Powell, Illinois artillery besieging Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 1863, artist's impression

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 7, 2013
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Our works before Vicksburg - Battery Powell - Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 4, 1863, p. 420.
Source note
John Wesley Powell, the battery commander, later became famous for his explorations of the Grand Canyon and as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey 
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