The Cavalry Camp
date: label: Date made
content: 1867
name: label: publisher
content: Lyon & Co.
label: lithographer
content: Giles, John Lawrence
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1860-1869
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
label: Subject
content: Wagons
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: American Civil War Prints
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2603
label: catalog number
content: 60.2603
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 17 3/4 in x 24 in; 45.085 cm x 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 1/2 in x 27 1/2 in; 54.61 cm x 69.85 cm