Night,Battle of Fredericksburg,Union Troops,American Civil War,Arthur Lumley
Title: Night. The sacking of Fredericksburg-- & biovace[sic]of Union troops
Creator(s): Lumley, Arthur, ca. 1837-1912, artist
Date Created/Published: [1862 December 12]
Summary: Street scene of soldiers plundering, buildings in shambles--some on fire.
Notes:
Title inscribed above image.
Inscribed lower left: Bivouac. Inscribed on building left margin as identifier: BANK OF VIRGINIA.
Inscribed on verso: Friday Night in Fredericksburg. This night the city was in the wildest confusion sacked by the union troops = houses burned down furniture scattered in the streets = men pillaging in all directions a fit scene for the French revolution and a discrace[sic]to the Union Arms[?] this is my view of what I saw. Lumley.
Source unknown.
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1862.
Subjects:
Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Banks--1860-1870.
Dwellings--1860-1870.
Night--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.
United States--Virginia--Fredericksburg
Drawings--American--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2004661312/
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