Return to Clark's Mountain by John Paul Strain Price: $275.00 |
| Title:
Return to Clark's
Mountain Virginia, March 5, 1864 Artist: John Paul Strain Image Size: 19" x 24 1/4" Overall Size: 23 1/2" x 28 1/4" 1250 s/n Limited Edition 125 s/n Artist Proofs |
Reproduction Technique: Fine
Offset Lithography Printed on 150# dull-coated art reproduction cover that is archival quality and neutral pH, using premium fade-resistant inks with multiple enhancement colors. |
| In early March of 1864, a snowstorm
draped
Virginia's mountain country in a cloak of white that extended over the
countryside south of Clark's Mountain, where General Robert E. Lee had
temporarily placed his headquarters. While Lee was back east in
Richmond
meeting with President Davis and other Confederate leaders, General
Judson
Kilpatrick and Colonel Uric Dahlgren led a force of Federal cavalry on
a lightning raid against the Confederate capital, planning to free
Northern
prisoners, burn the city and assassinate President Davis and his
cabinet.
The raid ended disastrously for the Federals: Dahlgren was killed and
many
of his troops were captured. From Virginia's mountain country,
however,
came reports of a larger Federal advance. Fearing an enemy move on Richmond from the west, Lee promptly returned to Clark's Mountain. Trudging through the winter snow in freezing weather, Lee and his troops prepared for battle. The Federal advance was a diversion, however, launched mainly to assist the failed Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid. Instead of engaging Lee, the Northern forces that had advanced along the eastern rim of the Appalachians quickly withdrew. The enemy, like the mountain snowstorm, had come and gone - but Lee knew "those people" would return and he again would be called to defend the Southern capital. |
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