Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany. 11th 1863 – Vintage Print
![Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany. 11th 1863, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between ca. 1863 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2c/2c9d7e1487ec-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: Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany. 11th 1863, 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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Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany. 11th 1863
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The fort in this print is Fort Hindman, the Confederate post that guarded the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, and the lithograph shows its bombardment and capture in January 1863. Union forces under Maj. Gen. John McClernand, supported by gunboats under Admiral David Dixon Porter, forced the garrison to surrender, and roughly 5,000 Confederate soldiers were taken prisoner. Currier & Ives, a New York firm that turned battle news into affordable pictures for home audiences, issued the print, and its hand coloring was applied to individual impressions. The scene is worth studying for how it pairs river gunboats with the fort's earthworks, a combination that made the action a notable naval and land victory.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between ca. 1863 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0658. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,122 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112384 |
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