Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862 – Vintage Print
![Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862, [between 1865 and 1895] — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f2/f213038b3381-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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Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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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Behind the breastworks of Culps Hill, the Union defenders faced a dawn attack on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Gettysburg battle. The record's title gives the year as 1862, but the fighting there took place in 1863, so the date is likely a slip. The hill's earthen and stone defenses had been held overnight by Union troops of the Twelfth Corps, who spent several hours that morning driving back Confederate assaults. The work was made after the war, between 1865 and 1895, and 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 | 1,536 × 894 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176385 |
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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)
