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General Pope's Division at the Levee, Cairo, Junction of the Mississippi & Ohio rivers on its way from New Madrid to Reinforce General Halleck, near Corinth.

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File Name	shadesharv_0002a.jpg; shades_harv_0002b.jpg
Creator	Vizetelly, Frank (1830-1883)
Title	General Pope's Division at the Levee, Cairo, Junction of the Mississippi & Ohio rivers on its way from New Madrid to Reinforce General Halleck, near Corinth.
Date	1862
Genre	Drawings
Material/Technique	pencil, crayon, and Chinese white on brown paper
Image Note	Published as wood engraving in Illustrated London News, 31 May 1862
Description	Steamer ships at dock at mid-distance, river and other shore in far distance. Soldiers and rail car on dock in foreground. Boats are the new Uncle Sam, Yankee, and Aleck Scott. Verso also includes sketches of: a "Western soldier", "Labourer on levee", and a "loafer", with the note, "These to fill up with."
Historical note	Frank Vizetelly was a British artist and war reporter for the Illustrated London News. This drawing, which was done on or about April 20, 1862, comes from a collection in Harvard University's Houghton Library (MS Am 1585) that includes 29 Civil War drawings. This image of steamboats at Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River, depicts Kentucky Brigadier General John Pope's Union army troops provisioning before heading south to Mississippi. It was published on May 31, 1862 (p. 554, volume 40, no. 1147) in the Illustrated London News.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Art and the war
Theme	Visualizing the War
Story	Photographers and special artists
Geographic Location	United States--Illinois--Cairo
Time period	1860-1869
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Contributing Institution	Houghton Library, Harvard University
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,113

Title	Recto
Archival file	shades12/0003_Recto.tif

General Pope's Division at the Levee, Cairo, Junction of the Mississippi & Ohio rivers on its way from New Madrid to Reinforce General Halleck, near Corinth.

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