Gen. Hooker's headquarters at the Chancellorsville house / Edwin Forbes. – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Gen. Hooker's headquarters at the Chancellorsville house / Edwin Forbes., preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gen. Hooker's headquarters at the Chancellorsville house / Edwin Forbes.
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Edwin Forbes drew this scene in pencil on May 1, 1863, the day Union commander Joseph Hooker set up headquarters in the Chancellor house at Chancellorsville, Virginia. Forbes was a sketch artist who followed the Army of the Potomac and turned field studies like this one into newspaper engravings, so the drawing has the quick, observational feel of work made on the spot. Hooker's stay was short. Within days, Lee and Stonewall Jackson struck his flank, and the house burned during the fighting.
| Created / published | 1863 May 1. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.60) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Hooker, Joseph,--1814-1879--Homes & haunts. Military headquarters--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities--Union.United States--Virginia--Chancellorsville |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,452 × 1,173 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217586 |
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