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The Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. May 31st, 1862 – Vintage Wall Art

The Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. May 31st, 1862, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1862. — antique lithograph
The Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. May 31st, 1862, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1862.. Antique lithograph from the Ballooning collection.

(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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Among the many Civil War prints of this fight, this one stands out for the observation balloon drifting in the distance above the field. Tethered balloons were a novel tool in 1862, and the Union army used them to watch Confederate positions and track troop movements. The battle, fought May 31 and June 1, 1862, near Fair Oaks Station east of Richmond, was a bloody clash during McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph the same year to meet public appetite for images of the war.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1862.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand colored.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0447. Observation balloon in distance.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,277 × 928 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216817

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