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Easton's Battery Item Info
- Title:
- Easton's Battery
- Date:
- 1861
- Transcription:
- Recto: "rebel cavalry retiring to draw on the union troops -- up the road // six cannons with caissons and horses // Dense woods / Rebel infantry // Easton's Battery on the high hill in the foreground to prevent the Enemy's Battery attacking our infantry in the advance -- and crossing the road which way the enemy expected to the union troops to assend [sic] // road // Dense Woods // Dense Woods // clearing // 6th Regt. Col. Ricketts // Thorntons House.";Verso: "Alabama [illegible] S Carolina."
- Subjects:
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Dranesville (Va.)--History--19th century United States--Army--Pennsylvania Light Artillery Regiment, 1st
- Condition:
- Vertical fold mark in center; fold marks in corners.
- Place:
- Virginia
- Medium:
- graphite and gouache on toned paper
- Dimensions:
- 20 x 7.0 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 37.4315734, -78.6568942
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-UK-VA-61-1 (Box 10).
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4932
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-UK-VA-61-1
- Collection:
- America's Civil War Years: Multiple Perspectives
- Tags:
- Battle Landscape Thornton House
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "Easton's Battery", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2860.html