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Fredericksburg – Vintage Print

Fredericksburg, [1899] — historic print
Fredericksburg, [1899]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: Fredericksburg, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the setting here, and the scene ties Robert E. Lee to one of the Civil War's most lopsided battles. In December 1862, Union forces under Ambrose Burnside repeatedly attacked Confederate positions on the heights above the town, and Lee's army held its ground while inflicting heavy losses. This line reproduction appeared as an illustration in John Esten Cooke's biography of Lee, reissued in New York in 1899 by G.W. Dillingham, which helped shape how a late-century audience remembered the general and his campaigns.

Created / published[1899]
Medium1 photomechanical print.
GenreBook illustrations 1890-1900.Line photomechanical prints 1890-1900.
NotesIllus. in: Robert E. Lee / by John Esten Cooke. New York : G.W. Dillingham Co., p. 176.
SubjectsLee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Military service. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate. Military personnel--Confederate--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194359

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