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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. Height: 30 cm, Width: 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.

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