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The War in America: march of Kershaw's and Fitz Lee's divisions of the Confederate Army..., 1864. Creator: Unknown.

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The War in America: march of Kershaw's and Fitz Lee's divisions of the Confederate Army up the valley of Virginia, 1864. 'We have received, from our Special Artist and Correspondent with the army of the Confederate States in Virginia...sketches illustrative of the recent operations in the Shenandoah Valley...[The engraving shows] the march of the divisions commanded by Kershaw and Fitz Lee...on their way to form a junction with the forces under General Early, near Winchester...the valley...here spreads to such width that it should rather be called a plain. The Blue Ridge is seen in the distance, to our right hand; and to our left is the smoke and flame of burning villages which have just been visited by the Federal army. Our Special Artist, indeed, from his actual observation, testifies that, on this occasion, "the Federals retreated, burning and laying waste every homestead in their track; thereby reducing hundreds of families to absolute poverty and possible starvation" - treating the State of Virginia as a hostile country, but in a spirit of wanton destructiveness unknown to modern European warfare'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A15_080

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29,7Mo (2,2Mo) / 32,8cm x 22,7cm / 3872 x 2680 (300dpi)

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animal people male man men animals walking horses horse destruction riding rider riders arts country art guy smoke valley burning British weapon weapons gun guns geography color Virginia horseman horsemen war cannon cannons location century marching Britain newspapers press soldiers soldier print concept shenandoah valley B&W artillery warfare engraved engraving United States of America Colour 19th century battlefield heavy artillery black & white black and white B W weaponry white and black Confederate on fire American Civil War armaments nineteenth century American America USA The Print Collector geographical feature gun carriage Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper united states Unknown Lee confederates 19th-century Fitzhugh Jubal Anderson Early Early Jubal Anderson Jubal Jubal Early Fitzhugh Lee General Fitzhugh Lee General Fitzhugh Joseph B. Kershaw Kershaw Joseph B. Joseph Brevard Kershaw Joseph Brevard