| Creator |
Currier & Ives. |
| Contributor |
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
|
Currier & Ives, publisher. |
| Title |
The gallant charge of the Fifty Fourth Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment [graphic] : On the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris
Island near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw.
|
| Publisher |
New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1863 |
| Date |
1863 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 34 x 41 cm (13.25 x 16 in.) |
| Description |
Commemorative print depicting the African American regiment's heralded battle at Fort Wagner at the moment of the death of
their white commander, Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw, his hand on his chest from the fatal gunshot, falls back on top of the parapet.
His color-bearer holding the American flag inscribed, "54th Mass." continues to charge. Gory hand-to-hand battle and bayonet
fighting proceeds around them. Soldiers fall to their death. The battle at Fort Wagner fomented Union support of African American
regiments and immortalized Shaw as a martyr for the cause.
|
| Is referenced by |
Conningham, Currier & Ives, 2210 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress i the year 1863, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office
of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
|
|
LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, p. 50. |
|
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
|
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Subject |
Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863 -- Death and burial. |
|
United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865) |
|
African American men. |
|
African American soldiers. |
|
Campaigns & battles -- South Carolina -- Morris Island. |
| Geographic subject |
Fort Wagner (S.C.) |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields. |
| Genre |
Commemorative prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870. |
| Printer |
Currier & Ives, publisher. |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Fort Wagner [5779.F.38] |
| Accession number |
5779.F.38 |
