Image of American Civil War Union General James Shields on horseback flanked by Confederate soldiers during the skirmish at the beginning of the first Battle of Kernstown in Winchester, Virginia; dead soldiers and explosion in foreground. Printer supplied by cataloger based on printer/publisher history.
"Pubd. by Currier & Ives,"--text, bottom left margin.
"152 Nassau St New York"--text, bottom right 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.
"The Battle was commenced on the afternoon of March 22nd at which time Genl. Shields while in the act of leading forward his men, was struck by the fragment of a Shell, which broke his arm above the elbow, and so far disabled him, that the next day he was obliged to give his orders for the battle, while extended on his couch. His brave followers fought with such desperate valor, that they forced back the Rebel Army under Jackson, and drove them in flight from the field."--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 Horses--Pictorial works Kernstown, 1st Battle of, Winchester, Va., 1862--Pictorial works Shields, James, 1806-1879--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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