The 15th Corps crossing the Saluda River above Columbia

Title inscribed above image.

Inscribed below title: the foreground should show more of the road.

Inscribed on verso: The bridge had been burnt by Wheelers men the night before we arrived and the 30th Ohio (Col Theodore Jones Brigade 2nd Division) crossed in a flat boat and skirmished with the enemy driving them to the Broad River the road shewn[sic]in the foreground is on the edge of a hill and gradually winding falls down to the bridge. On the right the slope is covered with trees among which horses are hitched, orderlies sitting & standing) in the centre on the edge of the road Genls Sherman, Howard, Logan, Slocum, & members of the different staffs are sitting. The Pontoon train & c moving down the road.

Published in: Harper's Weekly, April 15, 1865, p. 229.

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings File S.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2)

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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