St. Patrick's Day in the army--The steeple chase / EF. – Historic Print
![St. Patrick's Day in the army--The steeple chase / EF., [1863] Mar. 17. — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7b/7b313dd29ea3-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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A window into the past: St. Patrick's Day in the army--The steeple chase / EF., preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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St. Patrick's Day in the army--The steeple chase / EF.
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A pencil drawing titled "The steeple chase" shows General Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish-born commander of the Union army's Irish Brigade, in a playful scene for St. Patrick's Day, 1863. The record credits the work only to the initials "EF," so the artist is unidentified. Irish regiments marked the holiday in camp with parades, feasts and contests, and by March 1863 the brigade was encamped in Virginia after its heavy losses at Fredericksburg the previous December. A sketch like this one offered soldiers and onlookers a lighter view of an officer they knew well.
| Created / published | [1863] Mar. 17. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | J.P. Morgan |
| Subjects | Genl. Meagher--The steeple chase"--on mat. Gift |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 622 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113200 |
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