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A Watched Pot Never Boils

Marked "Plate 29." Contains 4 images. Upper left is titled "A Watched Pot Never Boils," and shows a black soldier sleeping next to a coffeepot that had been sitting on a fire and that is now knocked over. Upper right image is titled "A Hearty Supper...

GLC02199.29

Life studies of the Great Army

Print portfolio of 40 copperplate etchings made by Forbes while accompanying Union armies. All the etchings have been separated and put in individual folders. Created by Forbes, a member of the French Etching Club, while he travelled with the Union...

GLC02199

Gone Off with the Yanks

Marked "Plate 32." Contains 4 images. Upper left image is titled "Gone off with the Yanks," and shows what appears to be an abandoned shack that was inhabited by enslaved people. Upper right image is titled "A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey," and...

GLC02199.32

Through the Wilderness

Marked "Plate 3." Depicts a team of 5 horses being whipped by their riders as they drag a wagon of supplies and a piece of artillery along a muddy lane in the forest. The wagon wheels are caked with mud. The body of a dead horse lies in the lower...

GLC02199.03

Traffic Between the Lines

Marked "Plate 35." Depicts pickets trading for coffee and tobacco between the fortified lines during a truce. The enemy's works, protected by abattis and cheveaux-de-frise, are seen in the background, with groups of soldiers on the parapet. The...

GLC02199.35