About this image...

Image Title: Battle Of Big Bethel, 1861

Creator: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist

Date: 1861

Summary: Wood block made up of 14 separate blocks bolted together shows battle scene.

Notes: Exhibit caption (2014): Thomas Nast, the quintessential American political cartoonist, began his career as a sketch artist for the New York Illustrated News during the American Civil War. Just twenty-one when he drew this image of the Battle of Big Bethel, capturing Duryee's Zouaves, the Fifth New York Regiment, during their final charge into battle.

Subjects: Big Bethel, Battle of, Va., 1861
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles--Virginia

Collections: Civil War

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