Attack on the Massachusetts 6th at Baltimore, April 19, 1861 – Vintage Wall Art
![Attack on the Massachusetts 6th at Baltimore, April 19, 1861, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ac/acf6e533d68d-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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Attack on the Massachusetts 6th at Baltimore, April 19, 1861. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Attack on the Massachusetts 6th at Baltimore, April 19, 1861
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A pro-Southern crowd attacked the 6th Massachusetts on April 19, 1861, as the regiment marched between railroad stations on its way to Washington. The steel engraving by O. Pelton, after a design by William Momberger, depicts the chaotic street fighting that left soldiers and civilians dead. Known as the Pratt Street riot, the clash was one of the first bloody encounters of the Civil War, and it made Baltimore a symbol of the struggle over Maryland's loyalty to the Union.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : steel engraving. |
| Subjects | Steel engraving by O. Pelton after William Momberger. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War--Troops--Mass.; US Hist.--19 April 1861 (B- riot); Artists, Publ. I. (2); Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,119 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132067 |
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