Image of General Ambrose Burnside advancing with troops at the Battle of New Bern, North Carolina, during the American Civil War; Union soldiers on foot and on horseback advance; an explosion with wounded and dead Confederate soldiers in foreground. 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.
"Brilliant Victory of the Union Forces under Genl. A. E. Burnside, and total rout of the Rebel Army, by the Heroic Volunteers of the North."--text, bottom center margin.
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 30.48 x 39.69 cm (12 x 15 5/8 in.)
Battlefields--Pictorial works Battles--Pictorial works Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881--Pictorial works Generals--United States--Pictorial works New Bern, Battle of, New Bern, N.C., 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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