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The Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862]: Burning the dead horses near the Peach Orch. – Vintage Print

The Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862]: Burning the dead horses near the Peach Orch., 1862 — antique engraving
The Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862]: Burning the dead horses near the Peach Orch., 1862. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare antique engraving captures The Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862]: Burning the dead horses near the Peach Orch. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862]: Burning the dead horses near the Peach Orch.

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Few images from Shiloh show the aftermath as bluntly as this wood engraving of dead horses burning near the Peach Orchard, a spot where fighting raged on April 6 and 7, 1862. The battle at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, left thousands dead and wounded on both sides, and the animals killed in artillery and cavalry action added to the grim work of cleanup. Burning carcasses was a common way to limit disease and the stench in warm spring weather. The engraving appeared in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on May 17, 1862, where readers far from the front relied on such pictures to see scenes they could not visit.

Created / published1862
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1862 May 17. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US Hist.--6 April 1862; Civil War--Horses; Civil War--Battlefields; Tenn.--Pittsburg Landing; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 993 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134904

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