O último tiro do bucktail
1864
Edwin Forbes captures a gritty, exhausted moment from the American Civil War in this sketch titled 'The Bucktail's last shot.' The soldier, likely a member of the 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (nicknamed the 'Bucktails'), is slumped against a broken rail fence, looking utterly spent with his hat discarded nearby. The handwritten note 'Bethesda Church, Va.' places this scene near the brutal Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864. Forbes was an artist-correspondent who sketched soldiers right in the field, giving us a raw, unpolished look at the war's heavy toll rather than the glorified versions often seen in history books.
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