Brilliant naval victory on the Mississippi River, near Fort Wright, May 10th 1862 – Historic Reproduction
![Brilliant naval victory on the Mississippi River, near Fort Wright, May 10th 1862, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1862. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ee/eef438d93b26-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Brilliant naval victory on the Mississippi River, near Fort Wright, May 10th 1862. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Brilliant naval victory on the Mississippi River, near Fort Wright, May 10th 1862
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Few details in this print's record name the vessels or commanders, but its title places the action on the Mississippi near Fort Wright on May 10, 1862, when Union gunboats met the Confederate River Defense Fleet off Fort Pillow, Tennessee. The engagement was one of the early Union successes on the western rivers, and it helped open the way toward Memphis, which fell in June. Currier & Ives issued many hand-colored lithographs like this one to satisfy a northern public that wanted quick, vivid images of the war, so the print reflects both the event and the demand for news from the front.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1862. |
|---|---|
| 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. 0774. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations. Naval warfare--Mississippi River--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,453 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218173 |
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