Pursuit of Lee's army. Scene on the road near Emmitsburg - marching through the rain / Edwin Forbes. – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Pursuit of Lee's army. Scene on the road near Emmitsburg - marching through the rain / Edwin Forbes.
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Rain is the detail that sets this scene apart, showing Union troops slogging along a road near Emmitsburg, Maryland, as they pursued Robert E. Lee's army after the Battle of Gettysburg. By early July 1863, Lee's forces were withdrawing toward the Potomac River, and the pursuit through the Maryland countryside was slow, muddy work for men on foot and for wagons and artillery. Edwin Forbes, a Union artist who followed the army and sketched its campaigns for illustrated newspapers, recorded scenes like this one, which show the everyday hardships behind the war's larger movements.
| Created / published | 1862 [i.e., 1863] July 7. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Oil paintings American 1860-1900. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.292) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Troop movements--Union--1860-1900. Military personnel--Union--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Maryland--Emmitsburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 925 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176419 |
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