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Sword of Virginia, 2nd Manassas August 30, 1862

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As he thundered toward the roaring cannons, Colonel Skinner brandished his tremendous sword, a French Cuirassier saber he had brought home from Europe as a youth. The massive straight blade measured 38 inches long and bore an engraved maker's imprint of August 1814. "In his cups," a Confederate staff officer wrote, "the fine old Colonel would swear he should die happy could he have one chance to use that steel on the enemy." That chance loomed large at Manassas.

Berdan’s Sharpshooters Summer - Fall 1863 (24th in the Troiani Regimental Series)

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On the evening of July 1st, 1863 the regiments of the Army of The Potomac's III Corps arrived in Gettysburg and settled into bivouac after a fatiguing forced march. That day had seen sharp fighting north of Gettysburg as Confederate infantry clashed with Federals of the I and XI Corps. Among the tired veteran soldiers to arrive in Gettysburg on the evening of July 1st were Col. Hiram Berdan's 1st U.S. Sharpshooters and Lt. Col. Henry Stoughton's 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters. Both regiments of elite marksmen were at the time attached to General David Birney's 1st Division after their previous stay in Whipple's 3rd Division was ended in June following devastating losses at Chancellorsville.

The Unconquered 1st Tennessee Color Bearer at Gettysburg, July 1 - 1863	Limited Edition S/N Prints Image size: to be announced Overall size: to be announced Limited Edition S/N $ 225 Artist Proofs S/N $ 250 Shipping $ 19

Confederate Sharpshooters	Limited Edition S/N Prints Image size: 16” x 24” Overall size: 22” x 18” 350 Limited Edition S/N $ 95 75 Artist Proofs S/N Shipping $ 19
Confederate Sharpshooter takes careful aim with his imported English Whitworth rifle with telescopic sight.

Onward Georgians	Limited Edition S/N Prints Image size: 19” x 29” Overall size: 23” x 32” 350 Limited Edition S/N $ 250 100 Artist Proofs S/N Shipping $ 19
Battle of Fredericksburg, VA December 13, 1862 - Capt. John T. Jordan rallies the 49th Georgia on the R.F.& P. Railroad

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Color Bearer 1st Texas Regt. C.S.A. 1862
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A standard bearer of the 1st Texas carries forward the "Lone Star" silk flag of the regiment.

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Degress' Battery - Battle of Atlanta
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The men of Mersey's Brigade retake Degress' Illinois battery of 20lb. Parrott Rifles at the battle of Atlanta July 22, 1864. Included in the brigade was the 6th IL Vols. (Western Sharpshooters) who were largely armed with the Henry 16 shot repeating rifle.

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Cleburne at Chickamauga
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One of Forrest's Men
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Put The Boys In (VMI)
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Mahone’s Counter Attack
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Medal of Honor
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Captain Charles G. Gould of the 5th Vermont Veteran Volunteers leads his men into the earthworks defended by the 37th North Carolina at Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. Immediately beset on all sides, Gould struggled in the darkness to survive. Cut on the hand by a sword and bayoneted in both the spine and mouth he managed to kill one assailant and hold off the rest until rescued. For being the first man of theSixth Corps over the Confederate works on April 2, 1865, Gould was awarded the nation's highest honor, The Congressional Medal of Honor.

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The Soldiers Tribute R. E. Lee's Return from the McLean House
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Having surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, General Lee rode back toward his headquarters tent through a cool and dark Palm Sunday evening. The sun behind the clouds had slanted near the horizon; sunset in Richmond that night came at 6:24 (Americans did not begin observing Daylight Savings Time until 1918). A chaplain present with the army described the weather: "The morning had been bright and fair. By noon dark and gloomy clouds had gathered over the whole face of the sky." From a distance of a half-mile, General Edward Porter Alexander saw Lee coming out of the village on his familiar gray "Traveller" at about 4:30 p.m. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, Lee's reliable 34-year-old aide, rode beside his chief. "A strong desire seized me," Alexander wrote, "to have the men do something, to indicate to the general that our affection for him was even deeper than in the days of greatest victory & prosperity." Under orders from Alexander and his subordinate officers, artillerymen hurried to the roadside and formed into line. Alexander instructed them "to uncover their heads, but in silence," as Lee passed. The hastily formed plan for a dignified, if emotional, tribute to the surrendered army's chieftain fell apart at once. Infantry posted nearby swarmed around the artillerists and as Lee drew nigh, "some one started to cheer, & then, of course, all joined in." When he could be heard, the general "told the men in a few words that he had done his best for them & advised them to go home & become as good citizens as they had been soldiers." During General Lee's short, simple remarks, "a wave of emotion seemed to strike the crowd & a great many men were weeping." Soldiers pressed close to touch the general or his mount, "to try & express in some way," General Alexander wrote, "the feelings which shook every heart." A South Carolina surgeon who had served under Lee for most of the war described the moment in a contemporary letter to his wife: "I heard some of our men yelling, and saw General Lee and his staff riding towards us, and as he stopped?the men crowded around him to shake his hand and every man was shedding tears." Another observer used comparable language: "The men flocked round General Lee?and met him with shouts and tears." A North Carolinian standing "on the road side nearest the Court House" left a similarly vivid description of the event: "As he approached we could see the reins hanging loose on his horse's neck and his head was sunk on his breast. As the men began to cheer, he raised his head and hat in hand passed by, his face flushed and his eyes ablaze." Private John Mathews Brown had been attending Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, when war erupted. In March 1862, two weeks after his seventeenth birthday, he enlisted in the Rockbridge Artillery. Brown served steadily with that renowned battery, except when absent sick and while recovering from a wound he suffered at Malvern Hill. At Appomattox on the evening of April 9, 1865, Brown went to the edge of the road when he heard a commotion, and saw Lee riding through a dense crowd of soldiers. The general stopped in the midst of the throng and spoke briefly, out of Brown's hearing. Someone later told the Rockbridge gunner that Lee had admonished the men that "the bravest and best thing you can do is to go to that wife who is waiting anxiously for you?." Then, "as he approached where I stood," Brown recalled, "every head was bared?.General Lee's eyes were full of tears, as he turned his face from side to side and looked on the bowed heads of his men." The next morning, Colonel Marshall found some privacy in General Lee's ambulance, with an orderly posted to deflect interruptions, and drafted in pencil one of the most famous documents in American military history. General Orders No. 9, signed by Lee, began: "After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." There remained nothing for the weary Confederates to do but wend their way to desolated homes and begin the daunting task of rebuilding. Charles Marshall practiced law in Baltimore. Porter Alexander built railroads in Georgia. John M. Brown raised oranges near Tampa. Robert E. Lee grew into a towering American legend. Robert K. Krick Fredericksburg, Virginia

Don Troiani Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 20th Maine Volunteers December 1862
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In a sprawling encampment of the Army of the Potomac near Falmouth, Virginia, on the chill, wintry evening of December 7, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Infantry penned a heartfelt and affectionate letter to his "darling Fanny." It was their seventh wedding anniversary. "I am happier tonight than on my wedding night," he wrote, "happier because we have lived and loved together?.happier because I have not shrunk from the labors, hardships & perils that are demanded of Manhood - because in truth I think I have been tried as a man, and not found wanting." Chamberlain had worn the uniform of a Union officer for four months, and his sense of achievement came with the realization that his metamorphosis from Bowdoin College professor to disciplined soldier was now nearly complete. Within a week he and his comrades of the 20th Maine would be put to the stern test of battle, on the slopes of Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg. Chamberlain's wartime letters to Fanny chronicle that transformation from academic to warrior. Before Chamberlain and his regiment left Portland, his neighbors in Brunswick had presented him with a gray stallion, an animal he recalled as "the most splendid and famous horse in the region, with a full set of elegant equipments." But despite the trappings, when he departed for the front the 34-year-old still looked more the professor than soldier; his brown hair prematurely streaked with gray, and his angular features accented by a long beard that gave him a patriarchal air. He had much to learn about soldiering, but learn it he did, through the earnest tutelage of the Twentieth's commanding officer, the young West Pointer, Colonel Adelbert Ames. On the hard march across Maryland, past the carnage that lay in the wake of the fighting at South Mountain and Antietam; in muddy bivouacs along the Potomac; beside a smoky campfire in the Virginia highlands -- the fledgling field officer applied himself constantly to his new profession. "Col. Ames compliments my proficiency and says pleasant things about my natural adaptation to military matters," Chamberlain reported to Fanny on September 26.  "I study I tell you," he wrote a month later; "And it is no small labor to master the evolutions of a Battalion and Brigade. I am bound to understand everything."   On November 3 the Lieutenant Colonel provided his wife with a  description of how he appeared after weeks of rough campaigning: "Picture yourself a stout looking fellow - face covered with beard - with a pair of cavalry pants on - sky blue - big enough for Goliath, and coarse as a sheep's back - said fellow having worn and ridden his original suit quite out of the question - enveloped in a huge cavalry overcoat (when it is too cold) of the same color and texture as the pants; and with the identical flannel blouse worn at Portland - cap with an immense rent in it, caused by a picket raid when we were  after Stuart's cavalry, a shawl and rubber talma strapped on behind the saddle and the overcoat (perhaps), or the dressing cases, -- before - two pistols in holsters, sword about three feet long at side - a piece of blue beef and some hard bread in the saddlebags. The figure seated on a magnificent horse gives that peculiar point and quality of incongruity which constitutes the ludicrous?." Chamberlain recounted to Fanny another evolution in his soldierly persona, courtesy of Adjutant John M. Brown, that took place near Hartwood Church on November 22: "Mr. Brown took the opportunity today of cutting my beard to suit his notion of my face. He has left me with a ferocious moustache & my bit of an imperial only. The ends of the moustache he has waxed & twisted & they reach positively to the angle of my jaw (you have no angle on yours) & would almost meet under my chin. Mr. B. thinks he has me now to suit him - especially for a profile. You would not know me." He concluded his letter with a hopeful, yet what must have been for Fanny an ominous prediction: "We are on for Richmond once more & finally we shall take it this time you may be sure. But we have got to fight all our way from Fredericksburg, I suppose." And fight the Twentieth did. Though their losses (4 killed, 32 wounded) paled beside those of  many other units, the regiment, as Chamberlain informed Fanny, "nobly stood the trial." It was a precursor, and a portent, of greater deeds to come.

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Steady on the Colors
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He was resolute in his devotion to the cause. He was dauntless in battle. The Confederate infantryman embodied the defiant fighting spirit of the South. Time after time, with celebrated grit, he had stood firm on some chaotic battlefield of the Civil War to win victory against an equally brave adversary. In Steady on the Colors renowned artist-historian Don Troiani has used his artistry and command of authentic detail to reveal the Southern soldier in his prime, fighting with tenacity to halt an advancing foe. Deadly missiles fill the air and the sound of cannon and musket are everywhere, but still he stands resolute amid the storm, firm in his faith that duty comes above all else. It is a scene repeated on countless fields for four bloody, magnificent years and which made the heroic fighting men of the Confederacy legends for all time. A lifetime of meticulous research has allowed Troiani to present this dramatic image like no one else, with features as fine as the soldiers' leather accoutrements, wooden canteens, and distinctive battle flag.

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Allatoona Pass
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On the fifth of October, 1864, Confederate forces under Gen. S.G. French assaulted a fortified Union garrison at the strategic post of Allatoona Pass, Georgia. With courage equaled only by the Northern defenders, Cockrell's Missourians poured over the earthworks of Rowett's Redoubt in on the most ferocious hand to hand struggles of the war. The defenders including the 39th Iowa and the 7th Illinois who were armed with Henry repeating rifles, fought practically to the last. Initially successful, the Confederates were ultimately unable to take the main Union expression and song "hold the fort" were gleaned from Sherman's message to beleaguered Union commander, Gen. John. M. Corse.

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Garryowen Fredericksburg  December 12, 1862
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At quick march, the men of the Irish Brigade cross the Rappahannock River into the town of Fredericksburg to meet their fate at the calamitous forthcoming battle. As they cross, passing generals Meagher and Hancock, the band strikes up the jaunty Irish tune Garryowen.

Don Troiani Uniforms of the Civil War
12th Tennessee	Berdan's Sharpshooters	Original in Water Color Image Size: 8 1/2" x 11"  500 signed and numbered edition Sold in sets of two only for $75 Shipping $ 19

Don Troiani Uniforms of the Civil War
Irish Jasper Greens	Irish Brigade Band 1862	Original in Water Color Image Size: 8 1/2" x 11"  500 signed and numbered edition Sold in sets of two only for $75 Shipping $ 19

Don Troiani	Drive Them To Washington 1150 signed and numbered edition $250 100 Artist's Proofs $275 40 canvas edition $500 Shipping $ 19 Limited Edition $250 Canvas Edition $500
Stone Wall Jackson leading 4th Va. at the Battle of 1st Manassas. Mexican War style forge cap was absolutely documented as the correct type he wore.

Don Troiani	The First Battle Flags Image Size: 20" x 26 3/4" 1250 signed and numbered edition $250 100 Artist's Proofs $275 50 canvas edition $500 Shipping $ 19 Limited Edition $250 Artist Proof Edition $275 Canvas Edition $500
This new artwork depicts the presentation of 1st Army of Northern Va. battle flags November 28th, 1861 Centreville, Pa.Pictured are Generals:P.T Beauregard, James LongstreetEarl Van Dorn, Gustavas Smithand J.E. Johnston

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The Charge of the First Minnesota Image Size: 20" x 26 5/8" 1150 signed and numbered edition $250 100 Artist's Proofs $275 50 canvas edition $500 Shipping $ 19

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Bushy Run 1250 signed and numbered edition $ 175 100 Artist proof edition $ 200 Shipping $ 19

1st South Carolina Volunteers

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They were met with antagonism and prejudice. The Black soldier's place in the annals of the Civil War was hard fought and dearly won; calling for an extra measure of heroism to dispel the widespread opposition to their enlistment in the Union Army. The first effort at bringing them into service was the raising of the First South Carolina Volunteer infantry in May, 1862, by General David Hunter in the Department of the South. Having done so without authorization from Congress, the unit was soon abandoned But in December of the same year the unit was officially reorganized in the Beaufort area under General Rufus B. Saxon with Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson in command. The regiment was first equipped with older model muskets and garbed in standard uniforms but with distinctive red trowsers, which were particularly disliked by the men General Hunter, visiting their camp in January, 1863, promised them new Springfield rifled muskets and blue trowsers. Dark blue trowsers, at least, were delivered the next month. The new longarms followed later. The regiment was engaged in expeditions and actions in the deep South, where they "fought with astonishing coolness and bravery ," one witness remarked. In February, 1864, the unit was redesignated the 33rd United States Colored Troops. By the war's end, more than 186,000 Blacks would be serving in the Union Army; 134,000 coming from the former slaveholding states.

Confederate States Medical Service

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Mexican War Prints

Hays' Regiment Texas Mounted Volunteers 1847	Limited Edition S/N Prints Image size: 11 3/8" x 14" Overall size: 16" x 20" 350 Limited Edition S/N $ 75 75 Artist Proofs S/N Shipping $ 19

The Battle of New Orleans January 8, 1825

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On the 8th of January 1815 a combined force of: U.S. Regulars and Marines, Louisiana Militia, Volunteers from Kentucky, Tennessee and others under the command of Major General Andrew Jackson resoundingly defeated a superior British force advancing on the City of New Orleans. The redoubt was defended by a company of the 7th U.S. Infantry and a detachment of the 44th, manning two guns. Although the British were successful in taking the redoubt with great loss, it could not be held for long as it faced a withering fire from the American main line directly behind. With the failure of the main British assault the few survivors of the original 250 attackers surrendered or escaped. This last major battle of the War of 1812 was actually fought after the treaty of peace had been signed.

Sherburne’s Additional Continental Regiment 1778-1779

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Henry Sherburne of Newport, Rhode Island began his military career at age 35 when appointed Major of the 3rd Rhode Island Regiment in May 1775. Serving with merit during the Siege of Boston, he became Major of the 15th Continental Regt. in January 1776 and commanded a detachment that fought with distinction near the Cedars on May 20th, before being overpowered and forced to surrender. Exchanged shortly thereafter, Sherburne rejoined his regiment on the retreat from Canada and had joined Washington's Main Army by fall 1776. Sherburne, "as brave a man as ever was made" as recalled by one of his men, "and a strict disciplinarian" would again signalize himself in action, leading the 15th in a successful bayonet charge against the Hessians at Trenton.

The  Hesse-Cassel Corps of Field Jaegers 1776-1783	Limited Edition S/N Prints Image size: 11 3/8” x 14 1/2” Overall size: 15 3/8” x 20” 350 Limited Edition S/N $ 75 75 Artist Proofs S/N Shipping $ 19
The Hessian Jaeger Corps hired by the British to fight during the American War for Independence was among the finest light troops employed during the conflict.

Washington at the Battle of Princeton 1777

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In one of the pivotal moments of the Revolution, on January 3, 1777 when the cause of the patriots hung by a thread at the town of Princeton, New Jersey, Gen. George Washington proved once more to be the savior of the cause. Encountering a British brigade led by Col. Mawhood outside of Princeton, the patriot vanguard was forced back by a charge lead by the 17th Regiment of Foot. At the height of the fighting Washington with his staff galloped onto the field and rallied the retreating troops of Mercer's and Cadwalader's Brigades.

The Battle of Eutaw Springs 1781	Limited Edition S/N Prints Image size: 14” x 12” Overall size: 20” x 16” 350 Limited Edition S/N $ 95 75 Artist Proofs S/N Shipping $ 19
Colonel William Washington is unhorsed during bitter fighting at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, S.C. 1781 during the American Revolution.

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Molly Pitcher Battle of Monmouth 1778
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Breymann's Redoubt - Battle of Saratoga October 7, 1777
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Morgan's Rifle Corps. and Mass. Continentals turn the flank of the Brunswick Grenadiers at Breymann's Redoubt during the turning point Saratoga campaign of 1777.

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Continental Independent Rifle Corps Daniel Morgan’s Rifle Company 1775
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Symbolizing to many the very image of the patriot soldier, the Independent Rifle Companies were created at the dawn of the Continental Army. Authorized in June, 1775, by the Continental Congress, the ten units consisted of “expert riflemen: from Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. All members dressed in the distinctive frontier “hunting frocks” with ornamental fringe that had evolved along the Appalachian frontier, and had “an approved Rifle, handsome shot pouch and powder horn, blanket, knapsack…” along with a variety of “savage” embellishments, like leggings and war paint, and made them look both wild and intimidating. The skillful, if undisciplined riflemen served the country well as effective skirmishers and sharpshooters, becoming the “mortal aversion” of anyone in a red coat. At the end of their one-year enlistments many of these hardy fighters continued to forge the young nation by serving in new rifle regiments formed in their native states.

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The Minuteman 1775
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Don Troiani’s superb rendering of an enhanced farmer as he would have appeared on the 19th of April 1775, in his rough everyday clothing with his old French musket taken over a decade before.

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