Currier & Ives Bombardment & capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany. 11th 1863.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02881.12 Author/Creator: Currier & Ives Place Written: New York, New York Type: Print Date: 1863 Pagination: 1 lithograph : col. ; 30.6 x 40.6 cm. Order a Copy
Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Print is mounted. Full title: "The Bombardment and Capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany. 11th 1863. By the Gun-boats, commanded by Rear Admiral D. D. Porter, and the Union troops under Majr. Genl. McClernand; the number of Prisoners taken was 7000, being more than all the Federal forces in action, also 20 Guns, 8000 Stand of small arms and 200 army wagons, with herds of horses and mules." Depcits 5 ironclad gunboats bombarding the earthen fort while a paddlewheel ship in the right middleground disembarks troops on shore. Black smoke billows and orange cannon shots burst throughout the picture. The early Confederate flag flies above the fort.
The Battle of Fort Hindman, or the Battle of Arkansas Post, was fought 9-11January 1863, near the mouth of the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.The Confederate Army constructed an earthen fortification near Arkansas Post, forty-five miles downriver from Pine Bluff, to protect the Arkansas River and as a base for disrupting shipping on the Mississippi River. The fort was named Fort Hindman in honor of General Thomas C. Hindman of Arkansas. It was manned by approximately 5,000 men, primarily Texas cavalry and Arkansas infantry, in three brigades under Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill.
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