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Details
Creator Currier & Ives.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title The Battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17th 1862. [graphic] : This splendid victory was achieved by the "Army of Potomac," commanded by their great general Geo. B. McClellan over the rebel army under Lee Jackson and a host of others utterly routing and compelling them to a precipitate retreat across the Potomac to save themselves from capture or annihilation.
Publisher New York: Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1862
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 35 x 44 cm.(13.5 x 17.25 in.)
Description Battlefield scene showing Union soldiers on horseback charging Confederate soldiers on foot. Includes a Confederate soldier downing a union soldier with a bayonet and the Confederates on retreat.
Is referenced by Conningham, Currier & Ives 384
Notes Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns & battles.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Antietam [5779.F.47]
Accession number 5779.F.47