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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 17, 2014.
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engraving
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Longstreet's Sharpshooters Firing on A Federal Supply-Train - Sketched by an English Artist
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, January 9, 1864, p. 17.
Source note
Cropped from the larger version of this image, also available here.
At some point during the the seige of Chattanooga, sharpshooters under Captain Thomas J. Goree, a Texan, ambushed this Union Supply train twelve miles in the Federal rear, firing from Raccoon Mountain across the Tennessee River with Whitworth rifles. A British correspondent for the Illustrated London News named Frank Vizetelly accompanied Goree's small force and sketched the action. His image originally appeared on the front page of the Illustrated London News on Saturday, December 5, 1863 and was later published, without virtue of copyright, in the above Harper's Weekly version.
Thomas Jewett Goree, Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1995), 9.
Henry Vizetelly, Glances Back Through Seventy Years (London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner, and Co., Ltd, 1893), II: 95-96.