Historic Framed Print, Sharpshooters 18th Corps, 17-7/8" x 21-7/8"

Beautiful historic reproduction print from the Library of Congress collections.

Created 1864 July Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Artillery. On a separate sheet of cream paper and in Alfred Waud's handwriting: Sharpshooters on the 18th Corps Front. On some portions of the lines picket firing was soon discontinued. Genl. Warren considered it unnecessary to the safty[sic] of the 5th Corps front, and put a stop to it. The enemy did likewise. But where the practice was in vogue it was very dangerous to be exposed. A common plan of protection was that shown in the sketch, by a wooden tube widening outwards like a miniature embrasure buried in the crest of the rifle pit and protected by sandbags. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, p. 504 as part of a series entitled: General Grant's Campaign--In the Trenches before Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.359) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- 1864. Reference print available in Ray, Plate 80 (p. 159) Civil War drawing collection. Drawings American 1860-1870.

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