Image of the Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, during the American Civil War with Union and Confederate soldiers on foot engaged in a forest clearing surrounded by trees; dead and wounded soldiers in foreground; hot air balloon rising in distance; caption describing the battle in bottom margin. Printer supplied by cataloger based on publisher/printer history.
"Published 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 District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."--text, bottom center margin.
"152 Nassau St. New York"--text, bottom right margin.
"General McClellan having advanced 'The Army of the Potomac' to near Richmond, the Rebels took advantage of a terrible storm ... but were repulsed at every point with great slaughter."--text, bottom center margin.
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 31.12 x 40.64 cm (12 1/4 x 16 in.)
Battlefields--Pictorial works Battles--Pictorial works Fair Oaks, Battle of, 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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