Fairfax, Antique Poster

Originally preserved in the Library of Congress, this print of Fairfax is now available for your home or office. The Library has preserved this image as part of its permanent historical collection.

Library of Congress record: Created 1861 ca July Title inscribed below image. Date inscribed below image. Sketch of soldier on verso, with inscription: 2nd barricade after leaving Vienna on the road to Fairfax. Put in any quantity of men with axes in their shirt sleeves skirmishers with a blanket over shoulder have sack canteen and ammunition--rifles. If you please put in the extreme foreground--a cannon--and on the left continue the woods at the side of the road and make horse and foot winding through. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.597) Published with descriptive text in: New York Illustrated News, 29 July 1861, p. 193 (cover). Civil War drawing collection. Drawings American 1860-1870.

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