Cavalry Soldier Loading a Rifle
Cooper Hewitt

Cavalry Soldier Loading a Rifle

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

Black chalk and white crayon on gray-green laid paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Recto: A soldier in Civil War uniform, stands in the foreground, feet spread, holding a rifle placed diagonally across his body in his left hand, using a long rod in his right hand to tamp gun powder down the barrel of the rifle.

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