Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861 – Antique Wall Art
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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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861
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This drawing is dated Thursday, November 28, 1861, the day President Lincoln had set aside as a national day of thanksgiving, and it was sketched in a Union camp on that holiday. Pencil and white gouache on tan paper capture soldiers and officers gathered around the food, a rare view of a holiday meal in the field during the early months of the Civil War. Camp cooking in those years was usually rough rations, so a special dinner like this one stood out to the men who were there. The drawing gives a sense of how the army tried to mark the holiday away from home.
| Created / published | 1861 [November] 28. |
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| Medium | 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 24.7 x 35.1 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Military cookery--1860-1870. Military camps--Union--1860-1870. Military officers--Union--1860-1870. Celebrations--1860-1870. Soldiers--Union--1860-1870. Eating & drinking--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life--Union.United States |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,079 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110815 |
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