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Last stand of the Army of Virginia, commanded by General Lee / Edwin Forbes. – Vintage Print

Last stand of the Army of Virginia, commanded by General Lee / Edwin Forbes., [between 1865 and 1895] — historic image
Last stand of the Army of Virginia, commanded by General Lee / Edwin Forbes., [between 1865 and 1895]. Historic image from the Gettysburg 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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Hagerstown, Maryland, sets this scene apart. The town lay on the road Robert E. Lee's army took in July 1863 as it withdrew from Gettysburg toward the Potomac River, and the fighting there was largely rearguard action. Edwin Forbes, a Union artist who had sketched armies in the field, later produced finished scenes like this one, made decades after the war, when veterans and publishers were eager for images of the campaign. The verso carries a Winsor & Newton stamp, the mark of the London firm that supplied artists' materials, which suggests the sheet was sold to an artist for finished work.

Created / published[between 1865 and 1895]
Genremanufacturer of & dealer in artists materials ...
NotesVerso stamped: Prepared by Winsor & Newton
SubjectsConfederate States of America.--Army of Northern Virginia. Gettysburg Campaign, 1863. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Maryland--Hagerstown
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 896 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176398

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