Battle of Five Forks, Va.--Charge of Genl. Sheridan April 1st 1865 – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Battle of Five Forks, Va.--Charge of Genl. Sheridan April 1st 1865. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Battle of Five Forks, Va.--Charge of Genl. Sheridan April 1st 1865
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This color lithograph shows the charge led by Gen. Philip Sheridan at Five Forks, a road junction southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, on April 1, 1865. The Union victory there cut off Confederate supply lines and helped force the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond within days. The print was issued in 1886, about two decades after the fighting, by Kurz & Allison, a Chicago firm that produced many popular color battle scenes for American homes. Its later date means it reflects how the war was remembered and romanticized in the decades after it ended.
| Created / published | c1886. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 19825R U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1886 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A. |
| Subjects | Campaigns & battles--Virginia--Five Forks--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,126 × 1,683 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215907 |
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