Beginning of the second Bull Run campaign--Artillery fight at Rappahannock Station / E.F. – Antique 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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A window into the past: Beginning of the second Bull Run campaign--Artillery fight at Rappahannock Station / E.F., preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Beginning of the second Bull Run campaign--Artillery fight at Rappahannock Station / E.F.
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Drawn in pencil on August 23, 1862, this sheet records the artillery fight at Rappahannock Station in Virginia, an early clash of the Second Bull Run campaign. Union troops pressed across the river against Confederate guns on the far bank, and the engagement set the stage for the larger battle at Manassas later that month. The initials E.F. likely belong to Edwin Forbes, a field artist who sketched Union army operations in the East for illustrated newspapers. Sketches like this were made on the spot and engraved later, so they keep the immediacy of a moment that printed reports could only describe.
| Created / published | 1862 Aug. 23. |
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| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.264) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862. Campaigns & battles--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Virginia--Manassas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,436 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217273 |
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