Three Medals Of Honor, Battle Of New Market Heights, September 29, 1864 - Canvas Giclee

Three Medals Of Honor, Battle Of New Market Heights, September 29, 1864 - Canvas GicleeCanvas Giclee (printed as ordered) 15 Numbered Overall: 33" x 25" $700. 00 This haunting image by master historical artist Don Troiani depicts what is arguably the most important day in African American military history. The Battle of New Market Heights, fought on Thursday September 29, 1864 on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, showcased the fighting prowess of African American Union soldiers (known as United States

and a large number were taken prisoner

models all posed

tall white linen leggings with cloth covered buttons were worn and in the winter

Continental Army: 4th New York Battalion

1775 an alarm was spreading through the Massachusetts countryside that British regulars were on the march towards Concord

Confederate

The 164th New York was one of the four regiments recruited in the fall of 1862 from Irish-Americans for a brigade to be known as the Corcoran Legion

The whitened-buff flap of his "gunner's pouch & priming horn" can be seen at his right hip below the butt of the slung

primarily recruited and organized in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern states

A Note From Don Troiani: "Here is a new Revolutionary War figure study of and African- American soldier of the 4th New York Regiment as he would have appeared during the Saratoga campaign of 1777

Regulars and marines

25 year old laundress Margaret Cochran Corbin stood by her husband who was manning two cannons