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English: Title: Raising the flag May 1861

Abstract: A patriotic print dedicated by the publisher to the "Defenders of the Union." At left, Union troops march toward the U.S. Capitol. An officer on a spirited white horse brings up the rear. In the left middleground is Clark Mills's equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson. In the foreground a group of Union patriots, including women, children, soldiers, and sailors, gather round a flagpole on which an American flag has just been raised. Directly behind the flag is an equestrian statue of George Washington (also by Clark Mills). Soldiers, waving their hats and cheering, enter from the right, led by two drummer boys. Physical description: 1 print : lithograph printed in colors ; image 57.8 x 68.6 cm.

Notes: Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-8.; Title from item.; Entered ... 1864 by Charles Desilver...; After a painting by William Winner.; from the original picture by Winner ; engrd. by L.N. Rosenthal [...].
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