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Title: Assault on Fort Sanders
Creator: Kurz & Allison, printer
Kurz & Allison, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of Confederate soldiers charging up a hill attacking a Union fort at the Battle of Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, during the American Civil War; dead and wounded men visible on the ground.
"Copyrighted 1891 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, 76 & 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, U.S.A."--text, bottom right margin. "November 29' 1863. Union (Gen. Burnside) Loss: 8 Kd 5 Wd., 30 Capt.-Conf. (Gen. Longstreet) Loss: Over 500 Kd & Wd"--text, bottom left margin.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.66 x 68.9 cm (21 1/8 x 27 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_000749
383313
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1032
Language: English
Subject: Battlefields--Pictorial works
Battles--Pictorial works
Fort Sanders, Battle of, Knoxville, Tenn., 1863--Pictorial works
Soldiers--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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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