The Cavalry Camp
The Cavalry Camp
- Description
- Only a small part of any soldier’s time during the war was spent in battle, and this colored print depicts Union soldiers from a cavalry regiment occupied with the activities of camp life. In the left portion of the illustration, men take part in various chores – chopping firewood, cooking dinner, crafting horseshoes and saddles, and writing dispatches. At the bottom of the image, men smoke and play cards, but look up to greet the arrival of a fellow soldier, who rides into camp with several birds killed during a successful hunt. In the lower right, two men read a large map or document. Above them, the regiment horses stand tied together.
- The print was designed by John Lawrence Giles, a New York artist and lithographer active from the mid-1860s to 1882. It was published by the New York firm of Lyon & Co.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1867
- publisher
- Lyon & Co.
- lithographer
- Giles, John Lawrence
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- Measurements
- image: 17 3/4 in x 24 in; 45.085 cm x 60.96 cm
- overall: 21 1/2 in x 27 1/2 in; 54.61 cm x 69.85 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2603
- catalog number
- 60.2603
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Horses
- Chronology: 1860-1869
- Eating
- Civil War
- Uniforms, Military
- Wagons
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
