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Image size: 32 1/2" x 33" $ 475
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General James Longstreet
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Patton
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He’d grown up on the classics: stories of Hannibal and Alexander and Caesar; he knew of his five great-uncles and his grandfather – all of whom had fought and were wounded or killed in the Civil War; he’d heard Kipling himself tell of the thin red lines of British infantry; and, most importantly, he had learned of cavalry tactics from listening to John Singleton Mosby – the Confederacy’s Gray ghost – talk of his exploits. It is no wonder that George Patton became the man he did – timeless, as comfortable battling in tanks against Erwin Rommel as he would have been charging against U.S. Grant – and that he became perhaps the last great cavalry commander the world will ever see. Flamboyant, bold prophetic and prayerful, Patton was the fighting-man’s General, who shore and smoked cigars and hated the enemy as much as he loved his own men. In one campaign, he estimated that his Third Army moved farther, faster and engaged more of the enemy than any other army in American History. Obviously, he instilled in his men his own energy, his own fire. He was called the pure warrior. Directed by God himself more than by pure politics, he fought his own battles like a Caesar or Alexander. All of his life he would be driven by the fear that he would be unable to fulfill his destiny yet was buoyed by the belief that a just God would not permit this to happen; that it was His will that George S. Patton be the commander in the last big battle of the last big war. |
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Michael Gnatek
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Napoleon
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Wyoming Hunter Image size: 22" x 17 3/4"
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Michael Gnatek
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President Theodore Roosevelt Image size: 19" x 27"
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The Texas Brigade First Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment Image size: 21 1/2" x 15"
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The Lone Star Flag carried by the regiment was lost in the carnage of Miller's forty acre cornfield in Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 1862. Eight standard bearers were killed and casualties for the First Texas totaled over 80%. Private Samuel Johnson of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves captured the colors. The flag was returned to Texas in 1905. |
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Distant Thunder Overall size: 23 1/2" x 20 3/4" Original Available |
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In 1866, Congress recruited black men to serve in the 9th and 10th regiments of the U.S. Cavalry. These regiments were part of four new mounted divisions created by Congress to fight in the West and in the Southwest. The black troops saw as much action as their white counterparts and had a distinguished fighting record. They earned a number of Medals of Honor. In fact, the 9th Cavalry saved the 7th in the aftermath of Wounded Knee and fought beside Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan Hill. Military service represented a rare opportunity for these ambitious blacks. The soldiers who served in these regiments were generally of a higher caliber than the white soldiers. They deserted far less often and held onto both discipline and morale during winter marches. This rare opportunity, however, was met with prejudice. They remained segregated from the rest of the Army and had white officers, not black. But to the Indians of the Plains, the black soldiers were "respected antagonists." They called these black soldiers 'Buffalo Soldiers" because of the similarity of the soldiers' hair to the buffalo's shaggy coat. This term, Buffalo Soldier, was not meant to be a derogatory term. To the contrary, the buffalo was sacred to the Indians. The Indians honored the blacks by linking them with it. |
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The Grim Face of War Image Size: 24 1/2" x 18" 300 limited edition prints from the original oil $ 125 50 Artist's proofs $ 150 50 Publisher's proofs Shipping $ 19 |
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Private Peter F. Rafferty Co. B. 69th New York Volunteers of The Irish Brigade Image Size: 24 1/2" x 18" 600 signed and numbered prints $ 150 69 Artist's proof edition prints $ 175 Shipping $ 19 Original Available |
| Private Rafferty received the medal of Honor at the Battle of Malvern Hill,Virginia, in July 1862. He received seven wounds in seven days. Pvt. Rafferty was only seventeen years old. | |
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