The Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was mustered into service in Washington shortly after the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861. This hand-colored wood engraving depicts the regiment drilling near the unfinished dome of the Capitol. Like this engraving, many newspaper images covering the Civil War were later republished in The Pictorial Battles of the Civil War in 1885.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers Drilling for Active Service.--Charging, at the Double Quick, Up a Steep Bank Near the Capitol,” https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2011/2011-039-002/ (January 24, 2021)
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