The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam / E. Forbes. – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam / E. Forbes.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam / E. Forbes.
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Few subjects from the Civil War are as recognizable as the stone span over Antietam Creek, and this pencil drawing records the moment of the assault on it. On September 17, 1862, Union troops under Ambrose Burnside pushed across the narrow bridge in the afternoon, with Confederate defenders firing from the bluffs above. The fighting there was part of the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, which remains the bloodiest single day in American military history. The sketch, by E. Forbes, is one of the Civil War drawings the Library of Congress received as a gift from J.P. Morgan in 1919.
| Created / published | 1862 Sept. 17. |
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| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.39) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862. Bridges--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Maryland--Antietam |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,029 × 4,092 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218300 |
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