Image of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and the artillery of Boston assembled for review by Governor Nathaniel P. Banks and Major General John Ellis Wool in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1859; many ranks of soldiers outside a military camp on foot, on horseback, and accompanying horse-drawn cannons march past an assembled group of military and civilian observers; camp tents and landscape in background; small vignette with battle monument and a single man observing in bottom center margin. Endicott & Co. Lith. 59 Beekman St. N.Y."--text, bottom left margin. "Bachelder Dec. 1859"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image. "Endicott & Co."--text, on stone, bottom right of image "By His Excellency (Commander in Chief) Nathaniel P. Banks Major General J. E. Wool U.S.A. and the Massachusetts legislature escorted by the ancient and honorable artillery of Boston."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed hand colored ; overall 76.84 x 116.21 cm (30 1/4 x 45 3/4 in.)
Artillery--Pictorial works Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 Massachusetts--Militia--Pictorial works Military camps--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869 Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
Concord (Mass.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size Other Military The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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