Title

Major Theodore Winthrop at Big Bethel, Virginia, 1861 (c1880). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Major Theodore Winthrop at Big Bethel, Virginia, 1861 (c1880). Winthrop (1828-1861) was killed at Great Bethel on 10th June 1861. At the Battle of Big Bethel he volunteered for General Ebenezer Pierce's staff and drew up a crude plan of battle. After a Federal attack to the enemy right flank was foiled, Major Winthrop led an ill-fated assault on the Confederate left held by four companies of the 1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry. Winthrop leaped onto the trunk of a fallen tree and yelled, One more charge boys, and the day is ours. Soon thereafter he was killed by a musket ball to the heart and became the first officer to be killed on the northern side in what history regards as the first pitched land battle of the American Civil War. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1880

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C49_326

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (6,2Mb) / 10,7in x 18,2in / 3204 x 5457 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men country pointing guy tree trunk leading war union location century first casualty soldiers soldier concept battle B&W MONOCHROME killed metaphor United States of America United States 19th century battlefield black & white black and white B W major American Civil War nineteenth century American America USA The Print Collector leading by example leading the way Theodore Winthrop leading from the front engraving pointing the way Unknown Theodore Edmund Major Major Theodore Winthrop Major Winthrop Winthrop Edmund Ollier Ollier Battle of Big Bethel Edmund Ollier engraving