Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862 – Antique Print
![Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862, [between 1865 and 1895] — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cc/cc1eb9cf4973-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862
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The breastworks on Culps Hill, the wooded rise south of Gettysburg, are the setting here, shown as the hill looked on the morning of July 3. The title gives the year as 1862, but the fighting there took place in July 1863, when Union troops of the XII Corps held the hill's earthworks against Confederate attacks that began before dawn on July 3. The picture was made sometime between 1865 and 1895, years after the battle, so it reflects how the ground was remembered rather than a view sketched on the spot. It came to the Library of Congress as a gift from J. P. Morgan in 1919.
| Created / published | [between 1865 and 1895] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Oil paintings American 1860-1900. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.289) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Battlefields--1860-1900.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 9,687 × 4,874 px · prints to 32 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | Scene Behind the Breastworks on Culps Hill |
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![Attack of Johnston's Div., C.S.A. on the breastworks on Culps Hill defended by Wadsworth's Div., 1st Corps, and a part of the 12th Corps [under] General Slocum, half past seven P.M., July 2nd / Edwin Forbes.](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/93278794a3cc-400.webp)
