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Gettysburg July 2d 1863

Description: Image of Major General George Meade and other Union officers on horses at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War; wounded soldiers in foreground, tattered flags and smoke from fires rising in background; names of participants in bottom margin.
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Date: ©1868
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000817
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

The Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. July 3d. 1863

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Image of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War; Union and Confederate armies engaged at close range surrounded by smoke from cannon fire; dead and wounded soldiers in foreground; caption describing battle in bottom margin.

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Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec. 13th 1862

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Image of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War; Union and Confederate army lines engaged with wounded and dead soldiers in foreground; smoke rising from the battle along hill in background; caption describing battle in bottom margin.

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Gettysburg

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Image of a scene from the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863 during the American Civil War; Confederate soldiers attack Union lines with cannons in foreground; spooked horse hitched to a wagon being calmed by a handler at left; dead and wounded men visible on the ground or being carried away; smoke in the air partially obscures the view of Union forces up the hill at left.

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Experience of the 9th Mass. Battery at Gettysburg, Penn. July, 1863. Captain Bigelow commanding

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Image of five vignettes depicting a progression of battlefield scenes between the Union 9th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery and Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War; men on foot and mounted on horses are shown attacking, carrying wounded, around a cook fire, and leaving the battlefield; scenes are captioned, "Opening engagement," Retiring with prolonge," "Shelled out," "Position on the 3rd and 4th July," and "Leaving the field, July 5th."

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The 109th New York State vols. planting their colors on the rebel works in front of Petersburg, VA. April 2nd 1865

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Image of the Union soldiers of the 109th New York Infantry Regiment storming a hill in siege of Confederate troops at Petersburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War; men shoot from behind barricades, charge forward with swords raised, or help carry and tend to the wounded and the dead; smoke and explosions from artillery in the air.

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Brilliant Naval Victory on the Mississippi River, Near Fort Wright, May 10th 1862

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Image of Union and Confederate naval gunboats engaged on Mississippi River near Fort Wright, Tennessee, during the American Civil War; ships fire on each other on the river with explosions and billowing smoke rising into the sky.

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Gettysburg July 2d 1863

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