The library will close at 5 pm Wednesday, November 26th and remain closed Thursday, November 27th & Friday, November 28th in observance of Thanksgiving.
Return to list Material: Black & white sketches Artist: Edwin Forbes Location: Stairwell outside Memorial Hall
Forty prints by the American artist and war correspondent “field artist” Edwin Forbes were donated to Memorial Hall Library by George William Webster Dove in 1887 when Ballard Holt was the town librarian and the library custodian. (NB: Plates 1 and 32 are not on display.)
Plate 2: The Commissary’s Quarters in Winter Camp
Plate 3: Through the Wilderness
Plate 4: Winter Camp: A Wagoner’s Shanty, A Picket Hut, Mud Huts
Plate 5: The Pontoon Bridges
Plate 6: A Thirsty and a News-Hungary Army: A Thirsty Crowd, Newspapers for the Army
Plate 7: The Leader of the Herd
Plate 8: Necessary Routine: On Picket, Washing Day
Plate 9: A Christmas Dinner
Plate 10: Buildings and People: A Slave Cabin, The Old Grist Mill, Dabney the Orderly, “Got Any Pies for Sale, Aunty?”, A Pickaninny
Plate 11: The Newspaper Correspondent
Plate 12: “Coffee Coolers”
Plate 13: Officers’ Winter Quarters
Plate 14: An Army Forge
Plate 15: Returning from Outpost Duty
Plate 16: A Night March
Plate 17: A Halt in the Line of Battle
Plate 18: The Rear of the Column
Plate 19: Marching in the Rain: Stuck in the Mud, A Flank March Across Country
Plate 20: Fall in for Soup
Plate 21: Going into Camp at Night
Plate 22: Waiting for Something To Turn Up: On Picket, The Old Saw Mill, Waiting
Plate 23: “The Reliable Contraband”
Plate 24: Home, Sweet Home
Plate 25: The Distant Battle
Plate 26: A Cavalry Charge
Plate 27: Soldiers Pass the Time: A Hot Day, Beef Steak Rare!, A Straggler, A Quiet Nibble, A Cavalry Orderly
Plate 28: Newspapers in Camp
Plate 29: Repose on the Battle Field: A Watched Pot Never Boils, A Hasty Supper, Drummer Boys, Played Out
Plate 30: Coming Into the Lines
Plate 31: The Supply Train
Plate 33: The Picket Line
Plate 34: The Lull in the Fight
Plate 35: Traffic between the Lines
Plate 36: Going Into Action
Plate 37: An Advance of the Cavalry Skirmish
Plate 38: On the March: Fording a River, Twenty Minutes Halt
