Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863 by John R. Chapin

Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863, by John R. Chapin surveys the decisive three-day engagement of July 1863 from an elevated vantage, with massed lines of infantry, drifting artillery smoke and broken Pennsylvania farmland receding toward a distant horizon. Chapin was an American illustrator and field artist of the Civil War years whose battlefield drawings, now held in collections including the Library of Congress, carried the scale of the war to a nineteenth-century reading public.

Artist: John R. Chapin, American illustrator. Date: not confirmed; 1863 is the year of the battle depicted.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863. Nineteenth-Century American Historical Illustration.