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Battle for Fort Henry, Tennessee Item Info
- Abstract:
- Vigorous and sketchy scene of high action.
- Title:
- Battle for Fort Henry, Tennessee
- Artist:
- Lovie, Henri
- Date:
- February 6, 1862
- Transcription:
- Recto: "Make scene as wild as possible, I am entirely disabled by diptheria, Quincy or heaven knows what. // Contrast the black smoke well with the powder smoke. // Finish gunboats from former sketches, no changes except pilot houses who have this shape. // Flagship Cincinnati 450 yards from Fort. // Wooden gunboats high chimney finish from former sketches add top bulwark. // Carondelet. // St. Louis. // Essex, dropping downstream after being disabled. // Conestoga. // Lexington. // Taylor. // [all] firing. // Bursting of the 42 pound Rifled gun, all men disabled. // Flat sandbags. // Fascines all along. // Inside embankment.";Verso: no text.
- Subjects:
- Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 Gunboats--History--19th century
- Condition:
- Ripped in half; loss of paper in all four corners; rips along side margins; pin marks, lower right half; stains in upper quadrant.
- Place:
- Tennessee--Stewart--Fort Donelson Mississippi River
- Medium:
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions:
- each panel 13.75 x 10 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 36.4874969, -87.859348
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-HL-TN-2/6/62 (Box 5.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4501
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-HL-TN-2/6/62
- Collection:
- Ships
- Tags:
- Artillery Cannon Casualties Figures Soldier
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "Battle for Fort Henry, Tennessee", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2727.html