[CIVIL WAR]. CURRIER & IVES, publishers. The Soldier's Grave. Partially printed lithograph identified to Private William J. Martindale, 5th New York Heavy Artillery, POW Cedar Creek, VA, DOD Salisbury, NC.
Lithograph, 1865, image 8 7/16 x 11 3/4 in. (visible 10 x 13 3/8 in.), on wove paper, creases, minor spotting, framed to 12 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (not examined out of frame).
Completed in manuscript for William J. Martindale of the 5th New York Heavy Artillery. Martindale enlisted on 11 January 1864 at Oxford, NY as a private, mustering in the same day into Company H of the 5th New York Heavy Artillery. He was captured as a POW at the Battle of Cedar Creek (19 October 1864) and died of disease while confined at Salisbury, NC on 14 January 1865.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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