Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting sic the arrival of powder - 2 Classic, Historic Print

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Library of Congress record: Created 1864 ca July 29-30 Signed lower right: AR. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on an attached piece of cream paper: Carrying powder into the mine. The soldiers detailed for this duty carried the power--a keg in either end of a grain bag thrown across the shoulder. A portion of the covered way' along which they had to pass, was exposed to the enemies fire. At the dangerous points they would watch their oppartunity[sic] and dash over the exposed ground into comparative safety. Published in: Harpers Weekly, 20 August 1864, p. 528 (cover). Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.447) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- 1864. Civil War.

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