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Charge of Ewell's Corps on the cemetary [sic] gate and capture of Ricketts Battery – Historic Reproduction

Charge of Ewell's Corps on the cemetary [sic] gate and capture of Ricketts Battery, [between 1865 and 1895] — historic image
Charge of Ewell's Corps on the cemetary [sic] gate and capture of Ricketts Battery, [between 1865 and 1895]. Historic image from the Gettysburg collection.

(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 historic image of Charge of Ewell's Corps on the cemetary [sic] gate and capture of Ricketts Battery brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Charge of Ewell's Corps on the cemetary [sic] gate and capture of Ricketts Battery

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Ewell's Corps storming the cemetery gate and seizing Ricketts' Battery is the moment this canvas captures, a clash on Cemetery Hill during the first evening of fighting at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. The attack came as the Union defenders scrambled to hold the high ground, and the struggle there continued into the gathering dark. Painted sometime between 1865 and 1895, the work shows how artists kept the battle's most dramatic episodes alive in the decades after the war. J.P. Morgan gave the picture to the Library of Congress in 1919.

Created / published[between 1865 and 1895]
GenreOil paintings American 1860-1900.
NotesGift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.286) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2003.
SubjectsBattlefields--1860-1900.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,426 × 656 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176421

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