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Currier & Ives Capture of Roanoke Island, Feby. 8th 1862

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02881.30 Author/Creator: Currier & Ives Place Written: New York, New York Type: Print Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 lithograph : col. Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 40.5 cm Order a Copy

Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Caption under title reads: "By the Federal Forces, under command of Genl. Ambrose E. Burnside, and Gunboats under Commodore L.M. Goldsborough." Shows Union soldiers, dressed in blue uniforms, charging up the beach toward earthen embankments. Boats float in the background. Print is mounted.

Currier & Ives, fl. 1857-1907
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881
Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877

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