The Battle of Williamsburg, Va. May 5th 1862 – Historic Print
![The Battle of Williamsburg, Va. May 5th 1862, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1862. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/80/804a44f717be-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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The Battle of Williamsburg, Va. May 5th 1862 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Battle of Williamsburg, Va. May 5th 1862
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Fought in rain and mud around the earthworks of Fort Magruder, the battle at Williamsburg, Virginia, on May 5, 1862, pitted Union troops under Gen. George B. McClellan against the Confederate rear guard as Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army withdrew up the Peninsula toward Richmond. Both sides suffered heavy casualties before the Confederates pulled back during the night. New York publisher Currier & Ives, known for popular scenes aimed at a broad audience, issued this lithograph later that year, offering families at home a picture of a distant campaign that was then in the news.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1862. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0490. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,211 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110577 |
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