1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: A Rainy Day on Picket

Marked "Plate 8." Contains 2 images. Left image is titled "A Rainy Day on Picket," and depicts a grizzled soldier leaning against a tree and staring off into the distance. He lets his rifle rest in the crook of his arm while his hands are shoved into his pockets. Right image is titled "Washing Day," and shows a hardened soldier marching next to a wagon with his rifle on his shoulder. A shirt and a sock hangs to dry from the rifle. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27 x 40.5 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Titles taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.08

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: A Christmas Dinner

Marked "Plate 9." A lonely image of the outer picket line. An off-duty soldier next to a make shift shelter of pine boughs and fence rails cooks a meager meal and is tries to keep his hands warm. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.8 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Titles taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.09

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: A Slave Cabin

Marked "Plate 10." Contains 3 images. Upper left image is titled "A Slave Cabin," and shows a shabby wooden shack with a makeshift canopy for a porch. Upper right image is titled "The Old Grist Mill," and shows a large clapboard mill with a very tall waterwheel and a stone foundation. Bottom image is titled "'Got any pies for sale, Aunty?'" and shows a Union soldier straggling from the line of march in a search of luxuries. The cabin the soldier is at has a roof that is caving in. The bottom picture is flanked on one side by the image of an enslaved person named "Sam" and flanked on the other…

GLC02199.10

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: The Newspaper Correspondent

Marked "Plate 11." Shows a rider traveling down a road in a forest with dispatches with news of a battle, ahead of a rival correspondent. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.5 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Titles taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.11

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: Coffee Coolers

Marked "Plate 12." Shows a party of stragglers from the column which is seen marching over the hill in the distance. These are the men who are most likely to shirk a battle and were to be found with their regiments only when rations were to be served out, at a safe distance from the enemy. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.5 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.12

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: Officers' Winter Quarters

Marked "Plate 13." Depcits officers waiting for dinner after dress parade. In the doorway the sergeant of the guard is seen reporting to the officer of the day. One officer is lounging is a chair with a newspaper in front of the fireplace. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.5 x 40.4 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.13

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: A Scene on the Roadside Near Summer Camp

Marked "Plate 14." Depicts two calvarymen, who have just returned from scouting, having their horses shod. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.7 x 40.4 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.14

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: Returning from Outpost Duty

Marked "Plate 15." Depicts a winter scene of a squad of troops returning from the picket line and who are seeking their quarters.. Shows snow-covered tents and one has a wooden chimney with a wood barrel at the top. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.7 x 40.4 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.15

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: A Night March

Marked "Plate 16." Depicts the army going into action through the pinewoods. In the foreground a tree has been fired to give light for the march, and in the distance dense volumes of smoke are rolling up, the underbrush having caught fire from burning cartridges. Actual size of the image without the margins is 28.3 x 40.7 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.16

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: A Halt in the Line of Battle

Marked "Plate 17." Depicts the lines having advanced and driven the enemy, whose dead are lying in front, from the field. A reinforcing column can be seen coming over the hill in the distance. Shells from the enemy's batteries are bursting in the air. Actual size of the image without the margins is 28.3 x 40.7 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.17

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: The Rear of the Column

Marked "Plate 18." Depicts stragglers and wagon guards bringing up the rear while the wagon train is seen coming down the distant hill, with flankers thrown out to protect it from the enemy's horsemen. Depicts a Black man, possibly a freed enslaved person, among the lead figures. Actual size of the image without the margins is 28.3 x 40.7 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.18

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: Stuck in the Mud

Marked "Plate 19." Contains 2 images. Top half titled "Stuck in the Mud," depicts a pontoon wagon with a boat stuck fast in the mud. A regiment of infantry is pulling on a rope attached to the head of the team, trying to drag them to firmer ground. Bottom image titled "A Flank March Across Country During a Thunder Storm," shows a drenched column of men marching. Actual size of the image without the margins is 28.3 x 40.7 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.19

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: Fall in for Soup - Company Mess

Marked "Plate 20." Depicts a scene in winter camp, giving a general idea of the style of huts built and occupied by the troops. Shows a line of troops waiting to get soup. A wagon train is coming down the road from the distant camp on its way to the depot for forage. Actual size of the image without the margins is 28 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.20

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: Going into Camp at Night

Marked "Plate 21." Depicts column of troops marching over a hill in the distance. Background has fields filled with troops cooking supper. Two soldiers in the lower left foreground huddle around a fire. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.3 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.21

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: On Picket at the River Bank

Marked "Plate 22." Has 3 images. Upper left image is titled "On Picket at the River Bank," and shows several large trees along the edge of a river with a solider standing next to one of them. Upper right image is titled "An Old Saw Mill," and shows mill with several wagons next to it. The wheel is not visible. Bottom image is titled "Wating for Something to Show Up," and depicts a scene behind a breastwork during a lull in a battle. The troops defending this position of the line are sleeping under their tents or lounging under the shade of trees and house. A lookout is posted in a tree to…

GLC02199.22

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: The "Reliable Contraband"

Marked "Plate 23." A scene at the cavalry outpost. In the foreground, a Black enslaved person is leading an old horse and is seen hesitatingly imparting to anxious officers what little information he possesses of the enemy's movements. Cavalrymen and their horses are grouped about the house in the middle ground, and in the distance a look-out is sitting on his horse watching the road through the woods, in anticipation of the approach of the enemy. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.4 x 40.5 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from…

GLC02199.23

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: Home, Sweet Home

Marked "Plate 24." Winter camp scene. Two soldiers sitting in front of their quarters, which are built with logs plastered with clay, and covered with canvass. The soldier sitting on the drum is playing the old tune on an improvised fiddle made from a cigar box, while the younger sits leaning against the mud chimney, which is crowned with a plowshare to keep the smoke from blowing into the tent. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.3 x 40.5 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.24

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

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Title: A Distant Battle

Marked "Plate 25." Battle seen from a distance of about 6 miles. In the foreground is an abandoned breastwork; and on the road to the left a column of troops is seen hurrying toward the sound and smoke of distant cannon. Actual size of the image without the margins is 17.9 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents.

GLC02199.25

1863

Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898

Letter

Title: to Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

General Rosecrans writes, "Orders to come to See You Telegraph me at Harpers Ferry or Martinsburg or send word to Winchester when I can meet you." Date indicated as "12th 1863," most likely June 12, 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign, only a few days before Winchester was evacuated by the federal forces. Letter is secretarially written and signed.

GLC02330.02

7 October 1862

Newspaper

Title: Richmond Whig & public advertiser. [Vol. 39, no. 80 (October 7, 1862)]

The Battle of Sharpsburg.

GLC05959.71.04

28 October 1862

Newspaper

Title: Richmond Whig & public advertiser. [Vol. 39, no. 86 (October 28, 1862)]

The Battles of Kentucky, Official Report of General Stuarts Expedition into Pennsylvania.

GLC05959.71.05

27 October 1864

Newspaper

Title: Richmond Whig & public advertiser. [(October 27, 1864)]

From Petersburg - Movement of the Enemy - Erection of Winter Quarters, Details of the Forces Which have failed to capture Lynchburg, Why Grant has been baffled by Lee's small army, How the Confederates have Baffled the plans of General Grant, Grant's campaign against Richmond.

GLC05959.71.06

10 January 1865

Newspaper

Title: Richmond Whig & public advertiser. [Vol. 42, no. 3 (January 10, 1865)]

Sherman's Army in motion to the Sea.

GLC05959.71.07

8 July 1861

William Lloyd and Co. (Richmond, Va.), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 14, no. 111 (July 8, 1861)]

General Johson has moved his force to Bunker Hill, A fight in Western Virginia.

GLC05959.72.001

7 August 1861

William Lloyd and Co. (Richmond, Va.), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 14, no. 137 (August 7, 1861)]

The Evacuation of Hampton, The Battle Field at Manassas, The Attack at Aquia Creek, Proclamation of General Pillow.

GLC05959.72.002