- Collection:
- Civil War
- Title:
- Thunder Bolt Bat[ter]y from Rear
- Publisher:
- [published 1865]
- Date of Original:
- 1865
- Subject:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cemeteries--Union
Cemeteries--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.13991 - Medium:
- illustrations (layout features)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures Memory": Andersonville. Twenty years before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton distributed supplies and tended to the wounded and dying on Civil War battlefields. Although not the only woman engaged in such work, Barton became one of the most famous because of her efforts to identify dead and missing soldiers, especially those who perished in the Confederate prison located in Andersonville, Georgia. Due to Barton's perseverance, 12,000 graves were officially marked and Andersonville became a national cemetery on August 17, 1865. Barton, who raised the U.S. flag on that day, was overcome by emotion. She writes in her diary "Up and there it drooped as if in grief and sadness, till at length the sunlight streamed out and its beautiful folds filled the men stuck up the Star Spangled Banner, and I covered my face and wept."
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Oct., p. 633.
Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2005. - Local Identifier:
- Illus. in AP2.H32 Case Y [P&P]
92500082
ppmsca 05602 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05602
LC-DIG-ppmsca-05602 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-95101 (b&w film copy neg.) - Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/92500082/
- Extent:
- 1 print : wood engraving.
- Original Collection:
- Morgan collection of Civil War drawings (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
