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Title
Picket on Lover's Leap, (Road to the log house) Camp Anderson
Creator
Roesler, J. Nep., approximately 1826-, artist
Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1862
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of five Union soldiers assembled around a camp fire keeping watch on picket (or sentry) duty at Lover's Leap in West Virginia during the American Civil War.
This title is part of a set published as the Album of the Campaign of 1861 in West Virginia. Cincinnati : Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., 1862. "Printed by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Cincinnati."--text, bottom right margin. "Sketched fr. nature & drawn on stone by J. Nep. Roesler Corpl. of Color Guard Comp. G. 47th. Regt. O.V.-U.S.A."--text, bottom left margin. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by J. Nep. Roesler in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of Ohio."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 32.7 x 42.55 cm (12 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_MIL_002406
413518
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2266
Language
English
Subject
Rock formations--Pictorial works
Soldiers--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
American Civil War
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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