Genl. U.S. Grant at Wilderness – 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 historic drawing of Genl. U.S. Grant at Wilderness. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Genl. U.S. Grant at Wilderness
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Instead of showing a retreat, this drawing records the movement Grant ordered on May 7, 1864, when the Union army, after two days of fighting in the tangled woods of the Wilderness in Virginia, turned southeast toward Spotsylvania Court House. The alternate title, "The march from the Wilderness," points to that shift. Earlier Union commanders in Virginia had usually pulled back after costly clashes like this one, so the decision to keep pressing south signaled a new approach to the campaign against Robert E. Lee's army. The drawing belongs to the Library's Civil War drawing collection and came to the Library as a gift from J.P. Morgan in 1919.
| Created / published | 1864 May 7. |
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| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Also titled: The march from the Wilderness. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.179) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. Exhibited: American treasures of the Library of Congress, 1998. |
| Subjects | Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864. Military maneuvers--1860-1870.United States--Virginia--Spotsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,721 × 3,792 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223398 |
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