The Battle of Baton Rouge, La. Aug. 4th 1862 – Vintage Wall Art
![The Battle of Baton Rouge, La. Aug. 4th 1862, New York : Pub'd by Currier & Ives, [1862?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/19/1915e5f0ff79-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Battle of Baton Rouge, La. Aug. 4th 1862, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Battle of Baton Rouge, La. Aug. 4th 1862
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The title names a specific engagement: an 1862 fight for Baton Rouge, the Louisiana capital, which Union forces had occupied since the spring. Confederate troops under John C. Breckinridge attacked the city in early August to try to retake it, and the Union defenders, under Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams, held on, though Williams was killed in the fighting. Currier & Ives issued many hand-colored lithographs of Civil War battles for a home audience eager for news, and this one shows how the public was taught to picture the war. Its catalog entry, from Gale Research's 1983 raisonné, helps place it among the firm's wartime output.
| Created / published | New York : Pub'd by Currier & Ives, [1862?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0428. |
| Subjects | Campaigns & battles--Louisiana--Baton Rouge--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,119 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135604 |
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