Genl. Shields at the battle of Winchester, Va. 1862 – 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Genl. Shields at the battle of Winchester, Va. 1862 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Genl. Shields at the battle of Winchester, Va. 1862
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Union general James Shields is the figure at the center of this 1862 lithograph, which shows his troops in the fighting around Winchester, Virginia. Shields, an Irish-born officer who had been wounded in the Mexican War and had served as a U.S. senator, commanded forces in the Shenandoah Valley campaign against Stonewall Jackson's Confederates. The New York firm Currier & Ives issued inexpensive lithographs like this one to a public eager for images of commanders and battles during the early years of the Civil War.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1862. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2516 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,094 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174549 |
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