The battle of Pittsburgh, Tenn. April 7th, 1862 – Historic Print
(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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The battle of Pittsburgh, Tenn. April 7th, 1862 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The battle of Pittsburgh, Tenn. April 7th, 1862
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The print's title places the fight at "Pittsburgh, Tenn.," the Tennessee River landing that the Union army knew as Pittsburg Landing and that gave the battle its usual name, Shiloh. Grant's army was caught by a Confederate attack on April 6, 1862, and held on through the first day until Union reinforcements arrived overnight. The counterattack on April 7 pushed the Confederates back, but the two days cost more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing. Currier & Ives sold such lithographs to a public eager for news from the front, and this one dates from the year of the battle itself.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1862. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0476. |
| Subjects | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885--Military service. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,459 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216206 |
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