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[Infantryman on guard--Culpeper Court House, Va.] – Antique Print

[Infantryman on guard--Culpeper Court House, Va.], 1863 Sept. 30. — historic drawing
[Infantryman on guard--Culpeper Court House, Va.], 1863 Sept. 30.. Historic drawing from the Courthouses collection.

(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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A soldier standing guard at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, is the focus of this pencil drawing, dated September 30, 1863. Culpeper was the seat of Culpeper County, and by late summer 1863 Union forces had occupied the town several times, with its courthouse and surrounding grounds serving as a practical place for troops to be stationed. The sketch captures ordinary garrison duty rather than battle, a side of the war that appears less often in the record. Its pencil medium suggests a quick field study, and the drawing is part of a Civil War collection given to the Library of Congress by J.P. Morgan in 1919.

Created / published1863 Sept. 30.
Medium1 drawing : pencil.
GenreDrawings American 1860-1870.
NotesGift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.207) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.
SubjectsGuards--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life--Union.United States--Virginia--Culpeper
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,304 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-201928

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