Assault on Fort Sanders – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Assault on Fort Sanders in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Assault on Fort Sanders
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The attack on Fort Sanders, an earthwork on the western edge of Knoxville, Tennessee, ended in a Confederate defeat on November 29, 1863. Troops under James Longstreet tried to storm the fort across a ditch and through wire entanglements, and Union defenders beat them back with heavy fire. This chromolithograph was published in Chicago by Kurz & Allison in 1891, nearly three decades after the fighting, when color prints of Civil War battles were popular in American homes. It shows how the war was remembered in the late nineteenth century, when the clash was often recalled as a stubborn Union stand.
| Created / published | Chicago : Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, 1891. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Fort Sanders, Battle of, Knoxville, Tenn., 1863. Campaigns & battles--Tennessee--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,123 × 1,702 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215878 |
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