Battles of the Rebellion

Battles of the Rebellion

Fuchs, F., artist
Magnus, Charles, publisher

U.S. Civil War

Image of nine vignettes portraying American Civil War battle scenes surrounding a moonlit evening scene of a man and woman embracing near two trees with a large snake on the ground nearby; goddess Columbia with American flag at top center; scene captions in bottom margin.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by Charles Magnus, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States of the Southern District of New York."--text, bottom center margin. "Drawn by F. Fuchs."--text, bottom right margin. "Published by Charles Magnus 12 Frankfort Street, New York."--text, bottom center margin. "To Tad, a fine young soldier. / U.S. Grant"--text, verso, handwritten in black ink. (Ulysses S. Grant's inscription on verso is addressed to Tad. Tad likely refers to Abraham Lincoln's son Thomas.)

Last, Jay T., donor
https://calisphere.org/institution/304/collections/

1863

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priJLC_MIL_000812
383498
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1094

Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
https://calisphere.org/collections/27702/

English

Public domain