Cold Harbor Tavern, June 3, 1864

1864

Edwin Forbes captured this quiet moment at the Cold Harbor Tavern with his own handwriting dating it to June 3, 1864—the very day of a disastrous Union assault during the American Civil War. The sketch shows soldiers marching and wagons rolling past a rustic wooden building, depicting the mundane reality of army life just hours before a massive slaughter. Forbes was an artist-correspondent who famously sketched 'life studies' on the front lines, prioritizing the gritty truth of the soldier's experience over glorified battle scenes.

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