Rebel Prisoners leaving Baltimore for Fortress Monroe – 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 engraving captures Rebel Prisoners leaving Baltimore for Fortress Monroe in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rebel Prisoners leaving Baltimore for Fortress Monroe
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Here the subject is a group of captured secessionists, labeled rebel prisoners, being moved out of Baltimore for Fortress Monroe. In 1861 Baltimore was a divided city, and Union forces held many men suspected of backing the Confederacy in the months after the April street fighting. Fortress Monroe, a coastal fort on the Virginia peninsula, stayed in Union hands and served as a holding site. The scene ran in Harper's Weekly, which relied on wood engravings to show readers war events that photographs rarely captured.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1861. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Md.--B-; Civil War--Prisoners; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,031 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-134395 |
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