Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta, from "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)"
Artist
Kara Walker
(b. 1969)
Date2005
MediumOffset lithography and silkscreen on Somerset Textured paper
DimensionsSheet Dimension: 39 × 53 in. (99.1 × 134.6 cm)
Frame Dimension: 41 × 55 × 1 3/4 in. (104.1 × 139.7 × 4.4 cm)
Frame Dimension: 41 × 55 × 1 3/4 in. (104.1 × 139.7 × 4.4 cm)
ClassificationsLithograph
Credit LineStephen B. Lawrence and Bette Batchelor Memorial Acquisition Funds
Terms
Object number2019.4.9
DescriptionFrom "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)"; AP 3/10 (edition of 35 + 10 AP)This print depicts a group of Confederate soldiers being marched to Atlanta after being captured in Jonesborough, Georgia. Walker intervenes in the image with the overlay of a large silhouette profile of an African American man. When juxtaposed, the prisoners depicted in the original Harper’s engraving appear to gaze at the silhouette, whose oversized scale precludes it from being ignored or disregarded.
Fought over the course of two days in 1864, the Battle of Jonesborough was the final conflict of the Atlanta Campaign—a series of battles that took place throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta—which culminated in the besieged city of Atlanta falling into Union hands. The capture of Atlanta greatly aided the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in November of that year and hastened the end of the war.
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