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Collection Reference Number GLC05111.02.1355
From Archive Folder Cartes de visites 
Title Display of General Stanton's Official Dispatch of 17 January 1865
Date 1860
Document Type Photograph
Content Description Image shows a young boy holding the American flag, and a man who has lost both hands, standing next to a display on wheels of General Stanton's dispatch. Photographers imprint on verso: "'Glory to the Union!--The Stars and Stripes Forever!' Stanton's Official Dispatch, Dated, Tuesday, Jan. 17th, 1865. Troops arrive at Fort Fisher, Thursday, Jan. 12th; were landed Friday, Jan. 13; assault made Sunday, at 3 1/2 o'clock, P.M.; fight lasted seven hours; at 10 o'clock the Rebels were driven from the Fort, and at Midnight, Sunday, the Rebel Gen. Whiting surrendered to Terry. Explosion on Monday, Jan. 16th, between 6 and 7 o'clock, A. M. Bernard Toby" and "Fetter's New Photograph Gallery, Logansport, Ind. Two Operating Rooms. The best Gallery in the State."
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Battle  Fortification  Confederate States of America  Lincoln's Cabinet  Union General  Injury or Wound  Health and Medical  American Flag  Patriotism  
Theme The American Civil War; Children & Family
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945