歩兵
1863
Edwin Forbes sketched this weary soldier while embedded with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. The handwritten note at the bottom anchors the scene in Culpepper, Virginia, in September 1863, a time of tense maneuvering rather than major combat. Instead of glorifying battle, Forbes captured the mundane exhaustion of camp life, showing a soldier slumped on the ground with tents faintly visible in the distance. As a sketch artist for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, his goal was to show Northern readers the gritty, unvarnished truth of the soldier's daily experience.
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