2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Uncolored Print, “Jno A(lexander” McClernand” on horseback sword raised for a charge. Folio, ca. 12-1/4” x 16-1/2”, Lithograph by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Very good condition. Rare. He was charged by Grant with failing to support the troops engaged in the battle of Champion's hill, and he was relieved of his command in July, 1863. Perhaps in late 1861, but certainly by mid-1862, the Cincinnati lithographic firm of Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. began to issue a series of portraits of Civil War figures: politicians as well as military and naval officers. These prints, which the firm continued to issue at least as late as 1864. The firm issued seventy-nine different prints of sixty-nine different Union politicians and officers. The Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. prints were issued separately for those in the mid-west who wanted to have these images of Union heroes.
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