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Skirmishing, New River

Description: Image of a skirmish between Union and Confederate soldiers near New River in West Virginia during the American Civil War; men shoot from behind a low stone wall and under cover of brush at enemies below; log cabin visible along bank of river.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1862
Call number: priJLC_MIL_002411
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.

On New England’s shore

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Image of a waterfront landscape with a pair of men on the shore with their boat near a low stone wall; church and trees visible in background.

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Log House on Miller's Ferry. Camp Anderson

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Image of a log cabin with low stone walls and trees nearby at Camp Anderson located in West Virginia during the American Civil War; five Union soldiers in various states of repose visible outside the cabin.

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Battle of Stone River near Murfreesborough, Tenn

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Image of Union and Confederate armies engaged in the Battle of Stones River, Tennessee, in December/January of 1862-1863 during the American Civil War; soldiers shoot cannons in open field along a river and railroad tracks with forests in the background, soldiers on horseback at left; wounded and dead men and horses visible on ground.

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Battle of Savannah - Oct. 9th 1779. (Charge and daeth [sic] of Pulaski.)

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Image of the Battle of Savannah, Georgia, in 1779 during the American Revolutionary War; United States Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski is shot and killed as he charges forward at the head of a group of French and American cavalry; British soldiers shoot at the advancing cavalry soldiers from behind a barricade; dead and wounded men visible on the ground.

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View From Hawk's Nest towards the east

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Image of a group of soldiers manning a cannon on a rocky outcropping overlooking New River in West Virginia during the American Civil War; a log cabin in a wooded forest area next to the river bank visible in background below.

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Attack on an emigrant train

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Image of a group of American pioneer men, women, children and a dog behind a makeshift barricade on the frontier being attacked by Native American Indians with bows and arrows on horseback; several men shoot rifles over the barricade while one reloads his gun, an African American man takes a gun offered by a woman in front of the tents, and an older man has a wound tended to; barrels and boxes advertising Anheuser-Busch are visible next to the tent in the foreground.

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Skirmishing, New River

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