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Mort Künstler "Hero of Little Round Top " limited

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Artist: Künstler, Mort (American, born 1931)
Title: Hero of Little Round Top, Col. Joshua Chamberlain, July 2, 1863
Date: 1999
Medium: limited edition color print
Dimensions: Image Size: 18 1/4" x 27 1/4" Overall Size: 23 1/2" x 31 3/4"
Edition: 499/1500
Description: It was a desperate moment. The troops of the 20th Maine had been ordered to defend the left flank of the Federal line at Gettysburg "at all costs." Led by Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, a 35 year-old college professor and Christian theologian, the men from Maine had successfully repulsed repeated attacks by courageous Confederates from Alabama. Finally, exhausted and low on ammunition the valiant soldiers from Maine appeared near the breaking point. As the determined Southerners renewed the attack on Little Round Top with another assault against the Federal left flank. Chamberlain knew what was at stake. If his troops could not hold the line and the flank was turned, the Federal army might be destroyed, the battle lost - and the war with it.
Signature: signed in liquid pen
Provenance: American Print Gallery, Gettysburg, Pa.; sold to benefit the Meadville Medical Center Foundation, Meadville Pa.
Frame Type: Walnut wood triple matted with a shadow box presentation of reproduction of a American Eagle uniform badge
Frame Size: 28 x 36 inches

in seemingly very good condition, unexamined outside of the frame

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