The battle of Cold Harbor (Bomb proofs) – Historic Print
(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 window into the past: The battle of Cold Harbor (Bomb proofs), preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The battle of Cold Harbor (Bomb proofs)
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Rather than a battle scene, this drawing shows the earthen shelters, known as bomb proofs, that soldiers dug at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864. Troops built them by heaping earth over timber so that men could rest and wait out artillery fire. The fighting there, part of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, had settled into trench warfare by early June, which made such fortifications a daily necessity. The drawing came to the Library of Congress as a gift from J. P. Morgan in 1919 and belongs to its Civil War drawing collection.
| Created / published | 1864 June 8. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.232) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864. Battlefields--1860-1870. Shelters--1860-1870.United States--Virginia--Cold Harbor |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 987 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151796 |
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