Traffic between the lines – Historic Reproduction
![Traffic between the lines, [ca. 1876] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ff/ff925f0e8bea-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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This rare historic drawing captures Traffic between the lines in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Traffic between the lines
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Here, the title points to the informal trade that sprang up along picket lines, where Union and Confederate soldiers stationed close enough to talk often swapped coffee, tobacco, newspapers, and other goods. The drawing belongs to a series of Civil War army life studies made in the decade after the war, and the record names both Union and Confederate personnel, which underscores that the exchange crossed the battle lines. Such truces were usually unofficial and sometimes forbidden by commanders, yet they reveal how much daily contact existed between enemies who shared the same hardships.
| Created / published | [ca. 1876] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.329) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection." |
| Notes | Part of Life studies of the great army." Gift |
| Subjects | Barter--1860-1870. Military personnel--Confederate--1860-1870. Military personnel--Union--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 6,072 × 4,847 px · prints to 20 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225742 |
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