Battle of Fort Donelson--Capture of Generals S.B. Buckner and his army, February 16th 1862 – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Battle of Fort Donelson--Capture of Generals S.B. Buckner and his army, February 16th 1862. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Battle of Fort Donelson--Capture of Generals S.B. Buckner and his army, February 16th 1862
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Here the focus falls on the surrender of Confederate general Simon Bolivar Buckner and his army at Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River in Tennessee, on February 16, 1862. Buckner asked Union general Ulysses S. Grant for terms, and Grant's curt reply demanding unconditional surrender won him a nickname and a national reputation. The fall of the fort opened the Cumberland to Union gunboats and forced the Confederates to give up Nashville, making it one of the first major Union victories of the war. Kurz & Allison, the Chicago firm that issued this color lithograph in 1887, specialized in dramatic battle scenes for a popular audience.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 16271 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1887 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A. |
| Subjects | Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862. Campaigns & battles--Tennessee--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,127 × 1,698 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215912 |
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