Item #7074 Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg. Fought May 22, 1863, by the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Generals Grant, McClernand, Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlbut, General Pemberton Commanding the Confederate Forces. Permanently located on the corner of Seventh Ave. and Fifty-Fifth Street, New York. Emile Glogau, Supt.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg. Fought May 22, 1863, by the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Generals Grant, McClernand, Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlbut, General Pemberton Commanding the Confederate Forces. Permanently located on the corner of Seventh Ave. and Fifty-Fifth Street, New York.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg. Fought May 22, 1863, by the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Generals Grant, McClernand, Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlbut, General Pemberton Commanding the Confederate Forces. Permanently located on the corner of Seventh Ave. and Fifty-Fifth Street, New York.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg. Fought May 22, 1863, by the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Generals Grant, McClernand, Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlbut, General Pemberton Commanding the Confederate Forces. Permanently located on the corner of Seventh Ave. and Fifty-Fifth Street, New York.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg. Fought May 22, 1863, by the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Generals Grant, McClernand, Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlbut, General Pemberton Commanding the Confederate Forces. Permanently located on the corner of Seventh Ave. and Fifty-Fifth Street, New York.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg. Fought May 22, 1863, by the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Generals Grant, McClernand, Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlbut, General Pemberton Commanding the Confederate Forces. Permanently located on the corner of Seventh Ave. and Fifty-Fifth Street, New York.

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Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg. Fought May 22, 1863, by the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Generals Grant, McClernand, Sherman, McPherson, and Hurlbut, General Pemberton Commanding the Confederate Forces. Permanently located on the corner of Seventh Ave. and Fifty-Fifth Street, New York.

New York: Columbia Cyclorama Co., c. 1886. 8vo (9” x 6”), illustrated tan wrappers. 22 pp., [2] pp. of ads., folding circular view (15.5” x 15”), 1 inset map, 2 inset illus.

A scarce illustrated guide to the Cyclorama of the Battle of Vicksburg, for distribution at its ongoing exhibition at 7th Avenue and 55th Street, New York.

The Vicksburg cyclorama was painted by French artists Joseph Bertrand and Lucien Sergent. Bertrand spent several months on the Vicksburg battlefield, sketching, consulting maps, etc. (he also interviewed participants), then returned to Paris where he and Sergent worked on the painting for nearly eighteen months. Specialists in the genre, they had previously painted a panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg—the first of a Civil War subject—as well as a panorama of the Battle of Waterloo. Both worked on numerous other such paintings as well.

Provided here are accounts of the artists and various aspects of the battle. The principal text is that of an address of Gen. George A. Sheridan, “The Story of Vicksburg,” delivered 22 May 1886 on the occasion of the Cyclorama opening. A number of quotes from U. S. Grant are included as well. A list is provided of those who visited the Cyclorama who also fought in the Battle, including both officers and privates. Visual content includes the folding view, which identifies twenty-two important sites of the Battle; two illustrations of the battle by Flander Meyer of New York; and two illustrations showing the large building that housed the cyclorama. Rounding out the pamphlet are excerpts from the press, tables detailing the organization of the armies engaged in the conflict, and several ads including one for the attraction “A Trip to Africa” at Coney Island.

WorldCat records only two copies, at Princeton and Brown.

CONDITION: Very good, small tape repairs to inside edge of front-wrapper; contents bright and clean, 2.5” tear to folding view (which was affixed into the pamphlet in such a way that it impinges slightly on the title page text, but with no loss of sense).

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