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Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.0151 Author/Creator: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 Place Written: s.l. Type: Engraving Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 print : b&w Height: 23 cm, Width: 15.5 cm Order a Copy

One engraving entitled "Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore" circa 1861-1877. Depicts the Baltimore riot of April 19, 1861. Massachusetts militia passing through Baltimore are attacked by a seccessionist mob. In the center of the painting Union forces defend themselves against violent seccesionist weilding pickaxes and rifles.On the left a woman in white uses her body to shield a wounded woman lying in the street. In the background smoke and flying debris fill the street. Engraved by F.F. Walker after a painting by Felix Octavius Carr Darley.

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888
Walker, F.F., fl. 1860

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