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- GLC#
- GLC08878.0151-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1861-1877
- Author/Creator
- Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888
- Title
- Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 print : b&w Height: 23 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
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.
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