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Sketches Around the Fair Oaks Battle Field 

four scenes in a grid including soldiers on horseback crossing an bridge, figures riding a train at night, solid

Caption: Sketches around the Fair Oaks battle field. By our special artist, A Lumley. See page 123 [for related story].

Scenes include:

  1. 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry crossing [railroad] bridge over the Chickahominy River.
  2. Sleeping on the battle field.
  3. Sending rebel prisoners north from Fair Oak.
  4. Marching through swamp.

Source: Illustration from New York Illustrated News, June 28, 1862, page [113].