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Currier & Ives Battle of Mill Spring, Ky. Jan 19th 1862

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02881.04 Author/Creator: Currier & Ives Place Written: New York, New York Type: Print Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 lithograph : col. ; 30.3 x 40.4 cm. Order a Copy

Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Print is mounted. Caption beneath the title reads: "Terrific bayonet charge of the 9th Ohio Volunteers (Col. McCook) and total defeat of the Rebel under Genl. Zollicoffer by the Gallant Soldiers of the West." Full color picture depicting straight and orderly rows of Union soldiers dressed in blue attacking a retreating and disorganized group of Confederate soldiers dressed in green.

McCook, Daniel, 1834-1864
Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 1812-1862

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