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Painted battlefield landscape with soldiers, horses and wagons – Historic Print

Painted battlefield landscape with soldiers, horses and wagons — historic image
Painted battlefield landscape with soldiers, horses and wagons. Historic image from the Gettysburg collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic image captures Painted battlefield landscape with soldiers, horses and wagons in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Painted battlefield landscape with soldiers, horses and wagons

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Unlike photographs taken on the battlefield, this painted scene shows soldiers, horses and wagons spread across open ground, a view shaped by the artist's imagination rather than a camera's record. The morning of July 3, 1863, brought renewed fighting on Culp's Hill, where Union troops struggled to win back trenches they had lost the evening before. The most dramatic moment of the day came later, when Confederate artillery opened on Union lines ahead of Pickett's Charge. Paintings like this one often combined such moments to convey the scale and movement of the battle.

Original scan2,700 × 1,347 px · prints to 9 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference19524u view morning july 3

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