The demand for the surrender of New Orleans – Vintage Print
![The demand for the surrender of New Orleans, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f5/f50d0db0e5b1-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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This rare antique engraving captures The demand for the surrender of New Orleans in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The demand for the surrender of New Orleans
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The engraving shows the moment the Union navy pressed its advantage on the Mississippi. In late April 1862, Admiral David Farragut's fleet ran past the Confederate forts below the city and demanded its surrender, and when Mayor John T. Monroe refused, Union forces moved in and took New Orleans within days. Samuel Sartain's engraving, made after a drawing by F.B. Schell, reflects the wartime demand for images of such events, which illustrated periodicals provided to northern readers eager to follow the war's turning points.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by Samuel Sartain after drawing by F.B. Schell. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Civil War; Pub. Ind. (2). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157578 |
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