Collection Highlights
Pictorial map of New York and vicinity, showing the suburban towns, and railroad and water communications
Date:
1871
Object Number:
LIB.NS4.M32.3.10.1
Medium:
Black ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Martinsburg, West Virginia, near the Site of Franz Sigel's Defeat; verso: sketch of a house
Object Number:
1945.580.22
Date:
c. 1864
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (11.4 x 17.5 cm)
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper center in brown ink: "Martinsburg, Va."; at lower center in graphite: "Martinsburg where Sigel was defeated"
Description:
Civil War Drawings Collection. The Battle of New Market ,13-15 May 1864, followed Sigel's army's march from Martinsburg, West Virginia to Winchester, Viriginia.
Credit Line:
James B. Wilbur Fund
Provenance:
John T. Kavanaugh Collection, Rutherford, New Jersey, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
