Currier & Ives Battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9th 1862
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02881.32 Author/Creator: Currier & Ives Place Written: New York, New York Type: Print Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 lithograph : hand col. ; 30 x 40 cm. Order a Copy
Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street in New York (for a similar version see GLC02881.24). Subtitle says: "Between the Corps d'armée of Genl. Banks, constituting a part of the Army of Virginia, under Genl. Pope and the vastly superior number of Rebels under Elewll and Stonewall Jackson, the Rebels were finally repulsed, and the Field occupied by the Federal Army." Depicts a charge of Union troops in blue uniforms charging toward a line of Confederates. A forest and mountains are in the background.
Major General John Pope was placed in command of the newly constituted Army of Virginia on 26 June 1862. General Robert E. Lee responded to Pope’s dispositions by dispatching Major General Stonewall Jackson with 14,000 men to Gordonsville, Virginia in July. Jackson was later reinforced by Major General A.P. Hill’s division. In early August, Pope marched his forces south into Culpeper County with the objective of capturing the rail junction at Gordonsville. On 9 August, Jackson and Major General Nathaniel Banks’s corps tangled at Cedar Mountain with the Federals gaining an early advantage. A Confederate counterattack led by A.P. Hill repulsed the Federals and won the day. Confederate general William Winder was killed. This battle shifted fighting in Virginia from the Peninsula to Northern Virginia, giving Lee the initiative.
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