LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: CivilWar

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Title: The Battle of the USS "Kearsarge" and the CSS "Alabama" Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) Date: 1864 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 1/4 × 50 3/4 in. (137.8 × 128.9 cm) Framed: 68 7/8 × 65 5/8 × 4 3/4 in., 225 lb. (174.9 × 166.7 × 12.1 cm, 102.1 kg) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 (Cat. 1027) This dramatic painting captures an important naval victory of the American Civil War fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. The sinking Confederate boat, the CSS Alabama, has taken a direct hit to her engines from the Union’s USS Kearsarge, whose raised American flag flies against the clouds of dark smoke billowing from the wreckage. Manet’s sympathy for the Union and his young interest in joining the navy may have inspired this canvas, his first known seascape and first painting of a current event. This picture was initially displayed in the window of Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris barely a month after the incident took place. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844736

Civil War encampment on the banks of the Hudson River by the 14th Regiment N.Y.S.M. Company E Living History Association at the 2006 Peekskill Celebration in Peekskill, NY.

The resplendent gold-leaf General William Tecumseh Sherman Statue at Grand Army Plaza was the last major work of distinguished American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and won a Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition of 1900. text from: www.nyc-architecture.com/CP/cp023.htm

The resplendent gold-leaf General William Tecumseh Sherman Statue at Grand Army Plaza was the last major work of distinguished American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and won a Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition of 1900. text from: www.nyc-architecture.com/CP/cp023.htm

Lee - Jackson Monument ( Circa 1948 ) Civil War Monument Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive Baltimore City, Maryland Located on the Southeast corner of Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive. Text from: www.kilduffs.com/Monuments.html

Lee - Jackson Monument ( Circa 1948 ) Civil War Monument Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive Baltimore City, Maryland Located on the Southeast corner of Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive. Text from: www.kilduffs.com/Monuments.html

Lee - Jackson Monument ( Circa 1948 ) Civil War Monument Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive Baltimore City, Maryland Located on the Southeast corner of Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive. Text from: www.kilduffs.com/Monuments.html

CALVARY VETERANS PARK .03 acre This park, in a triangle formed by First Calvary, Green Avenue, and Gale Street within Calvary Cemetery, has roots in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan. In 1817, the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral (now called Old St. Patrick's Cathedral) on Mott Street realized that their original cemetery on Mulberry Street was almost full. They drew up a charter for a burial ground in Queens, and on October 29, 1845, the Trustees bought 71 acres of land from John McMenoy and John McNolte. They named the cemetery after Mount Calvary, where Jesus Christ was crucified according to the New Testament. The first burial in Calvary Cemetery took place on July 31, 1848. Since then, the Roman Catholic cemetery, which now comprises Old Calvary Cemetery and New Calvary Cemetery, has expanded to 365 acres, and is the largest cemetery in the United States. On April 28, 1863, the City of New York purchased the land for this park from the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral and granted Parks jurisdiction over it. The land transaction charter stated that Parks would use the land as a burial ground for soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War (1861-65) and died in New York hospitals. Parks is responsible for the maintenance of the Civil War monument, the statuary, and the surrounding vegetation. Twenty-one Roman Catholic Civil War Union soldiers are buried here. The last burial took place in 1909. This park is one of many public parks that serve as burial grounds. There are burial sites in Fort Greene Park (the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument) and Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, and in Drake Park, Pelham Bay Park, and Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx. Other parks throughout the city were once potter's fields which had no grave markers. Washington Square, Union Square, Madison Square, and James J. Walker Parks in Manhattan and Wayanda Park in Queens were all cemeteries for paupers and drifters. The monument features bronze sculptures by Daniel Draddy, fabricated by Maurice J. Power, and was dedicated in 1866. Mayor John T. Hoffman (1866-68) and the Board of Aldermen donated it to the City of New York. The 50-foot granite obelisk, which stands on a 40 x 40 foot plot, originally had a cannon at each corner, and a bronze eagle once perched on a granite pedestal at each corner of the plot. The column is surmounted by a bronze figure representing peace. Four life-size figures of Civil War soldiers stand on the pedestals. In 1929, for $13,950, the monument was given a new fence, and its bronze and granite details replaced or restored. The granite column is decorated with bronze garlands and ornamental flags. Updated May 17, 2007 Text from: www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_his...

CALVARY VETERANS PARK .03 acre This park, in a triangle formed by First Calvary, Green Avenue, and Gale Street within Calvary Cemetery, has roots in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan. In 1817, the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral (now called Old St. Patrick's Cathedral) on Mott Street realized that their original cemetery on Mulberry Street was almost full. They drew up a charter for a burial ground in Queens, and on October 29, 1845, the Trustees bought 71 acres of land from John McMenoy and John McNolte. They named the cemetery after Mount Calvary, where Jesus Christ was crucified according to the New Testament. The first burial in Calvary Cemetery took place on July 31, 1848. Since then, the Roman Catholic cemetery, which now comprises Old Calvary Cemetery and New Calvary Cemetery, has expanded to 365 acres, and is the largest cemetery in the United States. On April 28, 1863, the City of New York purchased the land for this park from the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral and granted Parks jurisdiction over it. The land transaction charter stated that Parks would use the land as a burial ground for soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War (1861-65) and died in New York hospitals. Parks is responsible for the maintenance of the Civil War monument, the statuary, and the surrounding vegetation. Twenty-one Roman Catholic Civil War Union soldiers are buried here. The last burial took place in 1909. This park is one of many public parks that serve as burial grounds. There are burial sites in Fort Greene Park (the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument) and Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, and in Drake Park, Pelham Bay Park, and Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx. Other parks throughout the city were once potter's fields which had no grave markers. Washington Square, Union Square, Madison Square, and James J. Walker Parks in Manhattan and Wayanda Park in Queens were all cemeteries for paupers and drifters. The monument features bronze sculptures by Daniel Draddy, fabricated by Maurice J. Power, and was dedicated in 1866. Mayor John T. Hoffman (1866-68) and the Board of Aldermen donated it to the City of New York. The 50-foot granite obelisk, which stands on a 40 x 40 foot plot, originally had a cannon at each corner, and a bronze eagle once perched on a granite pedestal at each corner of the plot. The column is surmounted by a bronze figure representing peace. Four life-size figures of Civil War soldiers stand on the pedestals. In 1929, for $13,950, the monument was given a new fence, and its bronze and granite details replaced or restored. The granite column is decorated with bronze garlands and ornamental flags. Updated May 17, 2007 Text from: www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_his...