Bivouaced in the rifle pits 5th Corps – Antique Print
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(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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This rare historic drawing captures Bivouaced in the rifle pits 5th Corps in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bivouaced in the rifle pits 5th Corps
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Soldiers of the Fifth Corps are shown bivouacked in the rifle pits, with cooking and camp life carried on in the trenches, in this pencil and Chinese white drawing on olive paper from July 1864. By that summer the Union Army of the Potomac had settled into siege lines around Petersburg, Virginia, where the fighting had turned from open maneuver to earthworks, sharpshooting and long waits. The small sheet is worth a close look for its record of how men lived in those trenches, eating, sleeping and keeping camp under constant threat.
| Created / published | [1864 July] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on olive paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 14.1 x 19.9 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Corps, 5th (1862-1865) Military cookery--1860-1870. Military camps--1860-1870. Forts & fortifications--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Trench warfare. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.United States--Virginia--Petersburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,293 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181452 |
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