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Currier & Ives Battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9th 1862

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02881.24 Author/Creator: Currier & Ives Place Written: New York, New York Type: Print Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 lithograph : col. Height: 30.6 cm, Width: 40.6 cm Order a Copy

Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Caption under title says: "Between the Corps d'armée of Genl. Banks, constituting a part of the Army of Virginia, under Genl. Pope and a vastly superior number of the Rebels under Elwell and Stonewall Jackson, the Rebels were finally repulsed, and the Field occupied by the Federal Army." Depicts various rows of soldiers in the chaos of battle. The mountains are shown in the background. The subtitle is too sanguine, as the Confederate counterattack kept the Federals from winning the battle. Lithograph is mounted.

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall," 1824-1863
Elwell, John Johnson, fl. 1862-1863
Pope, John, 1822-1892
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

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