Death of Col Edward D. Baker: At the Battle of Balls Bluff near Leesburg Va. Oct. 21st 1861 – Vintage Print
![Death of Col Edward D. Baker: At the Battle of Balls Bluff near Leesburg Va. Oct. 21st 1861, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1861?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/39/39333df35790-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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Death of Col Edward D. Baker: At the Battle of Balls Bluff near Leesburg Va. Oct. 21st 1861 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Death of Col Edward D. Baker: At the Battle of Balls Bluff near Leesburg Va. Oct. 21st 1861
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Edward D. Baker, a U.S. senator from Oregon who had also commanded a New York regiment, was killed leading Union troops at Ball's Bluff near Leesburg, Virginia, on October 21, 1861. The engagement was a costly Union defeat, and Baker's death made him the only sitting senator to die in combat. Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph soon after the battle, when newspapers and printmakers were eager to memorialize the fallen colonel. The print shows the kind of popular war imagery that brought news of distant fighting into American parlors.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1861?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1602 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174345 |
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