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Battle of Belmont from Harper's Weekly. Black; cream. Paper. This original full page engraving is a series of three sketches and a map. The main sketch is titled, "The Battle of Belmont--Charge of Colonel Dougherty, Twenty-Second Illinois Regiment, Upon The Rebel Batteries.--Sketched by Mr. Bill Travis." It shows mounted officers leading the charge into the rebel camp. The smaller sketches are titled, "The Mississippi River Near Columbus and Belmont, and The Retreat--the Tyler shelling the Rebel troops." It show a line of steamboats with shells bursting. The map is titled, "Mississippi River From Cairo To Chalk Bluff. , Civil War
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