The battle of Cold Harbor, throwing up breastworks – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of The battle of Cold Harbor, throwing up breastworks. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The battle of Cold Harbor, throwing up breastworks
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Soldiers at Cold Harbor, Virginia, are shown digging in and piling up breastworks, the earthen defenses that came to define the fighting there in June 1864. The battle followed Ulysses S. Grant's push toward Richmond during the Overland Campaign. After a costly Union assault on June 3 failed, both armies dug extensive trench lines that turned the field into a siege-style standoff, a pattern that would soon repeat at Petersburg. The drawing is one of the Civil War drawings given to the Library of Congress by J.P. Morgan in 1919.
| Created / published | 1864 June. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.235) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864. Battlefields--1860-1870. Forts & fortifications--1860-1870.United States--Virginia--Cold Harbor |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 924 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151801 |
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