Authors

Contributor

Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This black and white illustration depicts the Battle of Shiloh, an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. The scene depicts uniformed men in hand to hand combat, wielding firearms and swords, gathered around a cannon. "Battle of Shiloh" is captioned beneath the illustration. This illustration is from volume five of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

1890

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Object Type

image

Format (original)

illustration

Format (digital)

JPG

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V5_Battle-of-Shiloh_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 9

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

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