Image of Union and Confederate soldiers engaged in the Battle of Spotsylvania, Virginia, during the American Civil War in a wooded area; soldiers under General Winfield Scott Hancock (on horseback at left) charge Confederate cannon lines; wounded and dead soldiers in foreground. Printer supplied by cataloger based on printer/publisher history.
Date supplied by cataloger based on item text.
"Pubd. by Currier & Ives."--text, bottom left margin.
"152 Nassau St N. Y."--text, bottom right margin.
"At midnight Genl. Hancock, changed his position on the extreme right to the left; and at daylight attacked with his accustomed impetuosity, forcing the first, and then the second line of the Rebel works, capturing the whole of Jackson's Division and part of the Early's, together with Maj. Genl. E. Johnson, Genl. Geo. H. Stuart, and prisoners by thousands."--text, bottom center margin.
"846"--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 25.4 x 35.88 cm (10 x 14 1/8 in.)
Battlefields--Pictorial works Battles--Pictorial works Cannons--Pictorial works Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size American Civil War The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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