Image of five vignettes depicting a progression of battlefield scenes between the Union 9th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery and Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War; men on foot and mounted on horses are shown attacking, carrying wounded, around a cook fire, and leaving the battlefield; scenes are captioned, "Opening engagement," Retiring with prolonge," "Shelled out," "Position on the 3rd and 4th July," and "Leaving the field, July 5th." Single-color print. "J.H. Bufford's Lith. Boston."--text, bottom right margin. "Drawn by Chas. W. Reed."--text, bottom left margin. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864 by C.W. Reed in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Mass."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 45.72 x 61.28 cm (18 x 24 1/8 in.)
Battlefields--Pictorial works Battles--Pictorial works Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works United States. Army. Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery, 9th (1862-1865)--Pictorial works Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
Gettysburg (Pa.)
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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