Battle of the Wilderness--Desperate fight on the Orange C.H. Plank Road, near Todd's Tavern, May 6th, 1864 – 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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This antique lithograph of Battle of the Wilderness--Desperate fight on the Orange C.H. Plank Road, near Todd's Tavern, May 6th, 1864 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Battle of the Wilderness--Desperate fight on the Orange C.H. Plank Road, near Todd's Tavern, May 6th, 1864
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Set along the Orange Court House Plank Road near Todd's Tavern, this lithograph shows fighting on May 6, 1864, the second day of the Battle of the Wilderness. The dense second-growth woods in this part of Virginia broke up the lines, and on that morning Confederate troops under James Longstreet struck the Union flank along the road, pushing back Federal units in a close, chaotic fight. Kurz & Allison, a Chicago firm known for colorful battle scenes, issued the print in 1887, more than two decades after the fighting, so it reflects how the war was remembered and marketed rather than a firsthand view.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 16272T(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1887 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A. |
| Subjects | Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864. Campaigns & battles--Virginia--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,132 × 1,699 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215896 |
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