Our Generals
date: label: Date made
content: 1864
name: label: maker
content: Childs, John
notes: label: Description
content: This 1864 color print depicts a crowd of Union generals riding atop a mix of brown, black, and white horses. The highest ranking generals, including Scott, Grant, McClellan, and Sherman, are positioned in the front row and are identified at the bottom of the print. Behind the generals, a sailboat and steamboat cruise through New York Harbor, past the defenses of Fort Lafayette. This fortification was used during the war to detain Confederate prisoners of war and Northerners suspected of harboring Southern sympathies.
label: Description
content: The work’s publisher, John Childs, was a New York lithographer, artist, and print colorist active between the years 1836 to 1844. He was also known for his publication of satirical political cartoons.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
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.60.2607
label: catalog number
content: 60.2607
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 19 in x 25 1/2 in; 48.26 cm x 64.77 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/4 in x 30 3/4 in; 59.055 cm x 78.105 cm