Arrival and Debarkment of U.S. Forces at Hampton Ruins, Near Ft. Monroe Va. on the 31 March 1862.
date: label: Date made
content: 1862
name: label: publisher; copyright holder
content: Bohn, C.
label: maker
content: E. Sachse and Company
label: artist
content: Worret, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: After Virginia voted to secede from the Union, General Winfield Scott transferred several regiments of Massachusetts soldiers to Fort Monroe, Virginia, to prevent the stronghold from falling into the hands of the Confederate Army. Confederate commanders realized that they would never be able to hold the nearby town of Hampton, and advised its citizens to pack up their belongings and evacuate the city. Fearing that the town would be used to house Union troops and confiscated slaves, fleeing Confederates decided to burn the city to the ground. While the residents of Hampton, watching their homes go up in flames, believed the action to be a required sacrifice, the Union soldiers saw it as an unnecessary waste. Reports of the burning and illustrations of the town’s ruins were circulated in the North to support existing beliefs that the Confederate soldiers were reckless and irrational.
label: Description
content: This 1862 print shows several Union regiments arriving at and camping in the ruins of Hampton. Only the chimneys of houses and the burned out shell of the town’s church remain standing. A key at the bottom of the print identifies the different military units and destroyed structures.
label: Description
content: Edward Sachse moved to America from Germany sometime in the 1840s. He settled in Baltimore under E. Weber & Co., the city’s most prominent lithographer. He established E. Sachse & Co. in 1850, specializing in bird’s eye views of Baltimore and Washington D.C. This print, with its elevated perspective, reveals the maker’s predilection for panoramic cityscapes. His brother Theodore joined the firm in the mid-1850s and after Edward’s death in 1873, Theodore’s son Adolph headed the company, as A. Sachse & Co., from 1877 to 1887. The print was published by Casimir Bohn (1816-1883), a German-born publisher and bookseller based in Washington, D.C.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1860-1869
label: Subject
content: Bridges
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Wagons
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: American Civil War Prints
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3309
label: catalog number
content: 60.3309
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 9 3/4 in x 16 5/8 in; 24.765 cm x 42.2275 cm