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"Picket guard on the alert, near Lewinsville, Va." Source. |
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"Picket guard, Lewinsville, Va." Civil War-era colorization of the same stereoview with a different caption. Source. |
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Higher resolution version of the scene. Source. |
"Picket guard on the alert, near Lewinsville, Va." Union soldiers in front of a lean-to shelter posing as if they were fighting in a skirmish, 1861. By Edward Bierstadt. Animated stereoviews. Later used as a reference for his brother Albert Bierstadt's painting seen here:
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"Guerrilla Warfare," by Albert Bierstadt, 1862. Source. |
I have come across at least two other versions of Union soldiers posing in front of the shelter by Edward Bierstadt. The following stereoview is from Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose.
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"Picket Guard at rest near Lewinsville, Va." Another scene of Union soldiers posing in front of the shelter. |
The third is said to show Union soldiers guarding Confederate POWs in front of the shelter.
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"Picket Guard with Prisoners Near Lewisville." The resolution of the photograph is too low to tell whether or not the "Lewisville" caption is misspelled. From Cowan's Auctions. Source. |
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