(CIVIL WAR ART) [Simplot Alexander] Battle of Corinth

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(CIVIL WAR--ART.) [Simplot, Alexander?] Battle of Corinth. Pencil drawing, 13 1/2 x 21 inches; vertical fold, small red stain on lower edge, several short closed tears, lacking a bit of the lower right corner. Corinth, MS, 4 October 1862

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This drawing was engraved for Harper's Weekly, where its caption puts it in context of the battle's key moment. A single three-cannon Union battery led by Lieutenant Henry Robinet had been inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Confederates. Here the Confederates have stormed the battery and are attempting to take it in hand-to-hand combat. with--the two-page folding Harper's Weekly engraving, 1 November 1862, which provides the artist's attribution.