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- GLC#
- GLC02881.03-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1862
- Author/Creator
- Currier & Ives
- Title
- Battle of Williamsburg Va. May 5th 1862
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 lithograph : col. Height: 29.4 cm, Width: 40.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Print is mounted. Caption under the title reads: "Victorious charge of the gallant Soldiers of the North and East, under Genl. McClellan, the invincible leader of the Army of the Potomac." While the caption says this was a "Victorious charge," the Battle of Williamsburg was an inconclusive victory for the Army of the Potomac. Rows of Federal and Confederate troops are shown clashing in close combat, with a magenta hue dominating their depiction. The foreground shows several Union troops in blue uniforms, a solider carrying an American flag, an officer on horseback urging his troops forward, and a killed or wounded officer lying on the ground with his horse next to a cannon (no blood is depicted). See GLC02881.25 for a more varied coloration of the same lithograph.
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