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Fort Mitchell

Description: Image of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, during the American Civil War; view inside barricades of fort with cannons and soldiers overlooking the surrounding landscape.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1862-1865
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000847
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 Fort Pillow massacre

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Image of the Battle of Fort Pillow in Henning, Tennessee, in 1864 during the American Civil War; Confederate soldiers are depicted murdering African American soldiers and civilian men, women and children at the water's edge; soldiers, officers on horseback, and cannons on cliffs in background; Confederate and white surrender flags visible on hills.

priJLC_MIL_000771

The storming of Fort Donelson, Tenn. Feby. 15th 1862

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Image of Confederate soldiers defending with rifles, bayonets, and cannons as Union troops storm Fort Donelson, Tennessee, during the American Civil War; soldiers carrying American flags prominent in the charge; Union General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback directing the charge at left; dead and wounded soldiers visible; Confederate fort and river scene with steamboats in background.

priJLC_MIL_000947

Bird’s-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east

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Image of an aerial view of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp in Georgia; soldiers visible among densely packed tents surrounded by stockade walls and barricades guarded by gun towers and cannons.

priJLC_MIL_000840

The U.S. naval battery during the bombardment of Vera Cruz on the 24 and 25 of March 1847

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Image of the United States Naval Battery during the bombardment of Veracruz, Mexico, in 1847 during the Mexican-American War; soldiers load and fire cannons behind a barricade towards the city, dead and wounded men and horses visible in the foreground; walled city of Veracruz visible past barricades; names of guns and officers printed in bottom margin.

priJLC_MIL_001301

Assault on Fort Sanders

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Image of Confederate soldiers charging up a hill attacking a Union fort at the Battle of Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, during the American Civil War; dead and wounded men visible on the ground.

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Siege of Vicksburg, the assault on Fort Hill

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Image of Union soldiers surging up an incline on an assault of Fort Hill during the siege of Vicksburg from May through July, 1863, during the American Civil War; dead and wounded soldiers at left.

priJLC_PRG_002015

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