Battle of Baton Rouge/ August 5th 1862
date: label: Date made
content: 1862
name: label: copyright holder; publisher
content: Chandler, H. S.
label: maker
content: Punderson & Crisand
notes: label: Description
content: On August 5th, 1862, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge launched an attack on the Union-occupied capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge. In this print, Confederate regiments fight on towards the Union lines, braving fire from federal batteries. As the overpowered Federal forces retreated back towards the city, the Union commander, Brigadier General Thomas Williams, was killed. His subordinate, Colonel Thomas Cahill, took charge, moving the Union troops into range of protective fire from Federal gunboats positioned in the Mississippi River. A Confederate ironclad, the CSS Arkansas, was supposed to provide naval support, but its engines failed upon reaching the battle, forcing its crew to abandon ship. The print presents a birds-eye-view of the battlefield and town, and a key in the margin identifies several landmarks in the city, including the Louisiana State Capitol, the city’s “deaf, dumb & blind asylum,” and the former residence of President Zachary Taylor. Five Union ships are stationed outside of the city on the river, including a riverboat, two gunboats, the sloop of war Mississippi, and the ironclad Essex, which fires upon the approaching Confederate regiments.
label: Description
content: The print was published by the New Haven, Connecticut firm of Punderson & Crisand, a partnership of Lemuel S. Punderson and Emil Crisand. The company specialized in lithography and commercial printing. The publisher of the work was H.S. Chandler, who was based in New York and mainly produced advertisements.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Architecture
label: Subject
content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1860-1869
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Domestic Buildings
label: depicted
content: Battle Scenes
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.60.3264
label: catalog number
content: 60.3264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 8 1/4 in x 15 1/8 in; 20.955 cm x 38.4175 cm