Spotsylvania C[ourt] H[ouse], Va. – Antique Wall Art
![Spotsylvania C[ourt] H[ouse], Va., 1864 May 14. — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ad/ad48fef40ec7-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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A window into the past: Spotsylvania C[ourt] H[ouse], Va., preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Spotsylvania C[ourt] H[ouse], Va.
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Dated May 14, 1864, this pencil drawing shows Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, a small crossroads county seat caught up in the Overland Campaign. Fighting around the town began on May 8 and continued for about two weeks, tearing up its fields and farms. The drawing's subject is African American domestic life, a reminder that Black families lived through the war in the path of the armies and that the conflict upended their homes and routines. Given to the Library in 1919 as part of its Civil War drawing collection, it offers a quick glimpse of a place that became shorthand for the campaign's heavy losses.
| Created / published | 1864 May 14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.221) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Domestic life--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.United States--Virginia--Spotsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216171 |
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