Battle of Lexington, Missouri, from the 16th to the 21st Sept. 1861.
date: label: issuance date
content: 1861-1862
name: label: distributor
content: Whiting, George
label: publisher
content: Whiting, F. P.
label: distributor
content: Phelps & Watson
label: maker
content: E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
notes: label: Description
content: Between the 16th and 20th of September, 1861, Federal and Confederate forces clashed in the town of Lexington, Missouri, as part of a larger effort to control the state. Following up on their victory at the earlier Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Confederate troops forced their Union adversaries to surrender, employing mobile breastworks made of hemp to provide protection as they advanced on the Federal position around the Anderson House.
label: Description
content: This print depicts a scene of the battle from behind the Union position. On the left, Federal soldiers dressed in blue and red uniforms man a battery, while infantrymen to their right fire rifle at the Confederate forces. Through breaks in the smoke created by the Union weaponry, Confederate flags and battle lines are visible. In the foreground, a horse and its rider both lie dead and two wounded Union soldiers receive medical treatment. In the lower right corner, a mounted Union officer arrives with more infantrymen. Although the Confederates ultimately won the day, a large American remains upright, dominating the scene.
label: Description
content: This piece was designed by the Hartford, Connecticut lithographic firm of E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Edmund Burke Kellogg and Elijah Chapman Kellogg were younger brothers of the founder of the Kellogg lithography firm, Daniel Wright Kellogg. After Daniel Wright Kellogg moved west, his two brothers took over the family lithography firm in 1840 and changed the name to E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. They were responsible for the continued success of the family firm and involved in partnerships with Horace Thayer in 1845/1846, John Chenevard Comstock in 1848 and William Henry Bulkeley in 1867.
label: Description
content: It was published by Phelps and Watson, a partnership of Humphrey Phelps and his nephew, Gaylord Watson. Their New York firm published maps and lithographic prints and co-published many E.B. & E.E. Kellogg prints during the Civil War. The print was distributed by Frank P. Whiting, the son of the Kellogg’s New York-based co-publisher, George Whiting. Frank Whiting took over his father’s business after his death in 1862. He stopped selling Kellogg prints in 1866, and, in 1868, he partnered with his brother, Arthur, and formed the art dealership of Whiting Brothers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
label: depicted
content: Horses
label: depicted
content: Uniforms, Military
label: referenced
content: Civil War
label: depicted
content: Battle Scenes
label: depicted
content: Flags
label: related event
content: Battle of Lexington, Missouri
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.60.3315
label: catalog number
content: 60.3315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 9 1/4 in x 13 in; 23.495 cm x 33.02 cm