Image of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War; Union and Confederate army lines engaged with wounded and dead soldiers in foreground; smoke rising from the battle along hill in background; caption describing battle in bottom margin. Printer supplied by cataloger based on publisher/printer history.
"Pubd. by Currier & Ives,"--text, bottom left margin.
"Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."--text, bottom center margin.
"152 Nassau St New York."--text, bottom right margin.
"This battle shows with what undaunted courage, the Lion-hearted Army of Potomac... the Soldiers of the North are still as ready to meet the Traitors of the South, as in their days of proudest victory."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 31.12 x 40.64 cm (12 1/4 x 16 in.)
Battlefields--Pictorial works Battles--Pictorial works Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862--Pictorial works Soldiers--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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