Image of the Battle of Antietam, Maryland, during the American Civil War; Union cavalry clashed with Confederate soldiers on the battlefield under a plume of smoke; flags for each army visible. Printer supplied by cataloger based on publisher/printer history.
"Published by Currier & Ives."--text, bottom left margin.
"152 Nassau St. New York."--text, bottom right margin.
"This splendid victory was achieved by the "Army of the Potomac," commanded by their Great General, Geo. B. McClellan, over the Rebel Army under Lee Jackson and a host of others, utterly routing, and compelling them to a precipitate retreat across the Potomac to save themselves from capture or annihilation."--text, bottom center margin.
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 31.12 x 40.96 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862--Pictorial works Battlefields--Pictorial works Battles--Pictorial works Cavalry--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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