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Study of a mule team and wagon, with driver – Vintage Wall Art

Study of a mule team and wagon, with driver, 1863 Sept. 30. — historic drawing
Study of a mule team and wagon, with driver, 1863 Sept. 30.. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive 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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Study of a mule team and wagon, with driver

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This drawing shows a team of mules hitched to a supply wagon, with the driver seated among them, sketched at Culpeper Court House in Virginia on September 30, 1863. By that autumn, Culpeper was a major encampment for the Union Army of the Potomac, and the animals and wagons that moved food, ammunition, and equipment were as essential to the army's operations as the soldiers themselves. The drawing is one of the Civil War sketches given to the Library of Congress by J.P. Morgan in 1919, and it preserves an everyday scene of army logistics that rarely appears in battle pictures.

Created / published1863 Sept. 30.
Medium1 drawing.
GenreDrawings American 1860-1870.
NotesGift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.118) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.
SubjectsMules--1860-1870.United States--Virginia--Culpeper Court House
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,138 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151813

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