The battle of Spottsylvania [sic]--View of the field from the center of the position / E. Forbes. – Vintage Photo Print
![The battle of Spottsylvania [sic]--View of the field from the center of the position / E. Forbes., [1864 May 09] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1d/1db2a2d4b514-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 Spottsylvania [sic]--View of the field from the center of the position / E. Forbes., preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The battle of Spottsylvania [sic]--View of the field from the center of the position / E. Forbes.
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Drawn in pencil from the center of the Union position, this view shows the ground where troops fought at Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia in May 1864, during Ulysses S. Grant's campaign against Robert E. Lee. The record dates it to May 9, the day Union assaults on the Confederate lines met fierce resistance and Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, commander of the Union Sixth Corps, was killed by a sharpshooter. Field sketches like this one were often made quickly on campaign and later used as references for published illustrations, so the drawing records terrain as much as it records events.
| Created / published | [1864 May 09] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.215) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864. Military personnel--Union--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Virginia--Spotsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,725 × 3,738 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219608 |
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