Image of Major General George Meade and other Union officers on horses at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War; wounded soldiers in foreground, tattered flags and smoke from fires rising in background; names of participants in bottom margin. "W. Boell Lith. Philade"--text, in stone, bottom left of image.
"Copyright secured / F.A. Wenderoth / 1868"--text, in stone, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 55.25 x 69.85 cm (21 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
Battlefields--Pictorial works Cavalry--Pictorial works Generals--United States--Pictorial works Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872--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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