A reader asked for more information about the image that accompanied my last post. It is titled “News From Home” and was sketched by the artist Edwin Forbes. The scene is a Union soldier reading a letter from home (or perhaps a newspaper), in camp, near Culpepper [sic] Court House, Virginia and was sketched on September 30, 1863.
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