Head Quarters at Harrison's Landing
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: depicted
content: McClellan, George B.
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This print was produced sometime after the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. General McClellan had intended to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862, but after a series of engagements with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in the Seven Days Battle, he withdrew to the James River, 20 miles from Richmond. Lincoln then called for the Army of the Potomac to return to Washington, D.C. The failure of the Peninsula Campaign crushed the morale of Union forces, who believed the capture of the Confederate capital would bring about and end to the fighting.
label: Description
content: A critic of McClellan’s retreat, the artist of this print depicts the general reclining aboard a ship at the safety of his headquarters at Harrison’s landing. He sips on a drink while a bottle rests below him. In his left hand, he holds his sword below him and his hat lies on the ground. The illustration is signed in the lower left hand corner, simply as “Potomac.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
label: depicted
content: United States: Virginia, Charles City
topic: label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
label: referenced
content: Civil War
label: depicted
content: Furnishings
label: depicted
content: Political Caricatures
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.60.3443
label: catalog number
content: 60.3443
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10 7/8 in x 7 3/4 in; 27.6225 cm x 19.685 cm