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Bayonet Charge Winslow Homer

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Les Nordistes chargent à la baïonnette lors de la bataille de Fair Oaks (ou bataille de Seven Pines , 31 mai-1° juin 1862) par Winslow Homer. Noter les "détails techniques" qui renforcent le réalisme quasi-photographique de la scène. En fait, à Fair Oaks les Confédérés ont bloqué devant Richmond l'avancée de l'armée du Potomac de George McClellan , avant de la refouler vers la mer (bataille de Sept Jours). Gravure parue dans le Harper's Weekly du 12 juillet 1862

The two former drawings are by our artist, Mr. Winslow Homer, who spent some time with the army of the Potomac, and drew his figures from life. The Bayonet Charge is one of the most spirited pictures ever published in this country. It is notorious to military men that soldiers seldom actually cross bayonets with each other in battle. Before the regiment which is charging reaches its antagonist, the latter usually seeks safety in flight. All the strength and all the bravery in the world will not protect a man from being run through the body by a bayonet if he stands still while it approaches him end on. It is said that during the Peninsular war there was an occasion on which the British and French armies actually crossed bayonets, and at Inkerman one of the Russian Regiments is said to have stood still while it was charged by an English regiment. At Fairoaks the rebels almost invariably broke and fled before our bayonets reached them. In one or two instances, however, there were hand-to-hand tussles at particular points. One of these is realized in our picture.