This compelling action scene is from the very onset of the Civil War. * * * * Artist: Mort Kustler * * Title: "First to the Guns" * Medium: Print on acid free canvas textured paper * * Image Size: 13"x10.5" * * Edition: Framed and matted calendar printing * * Framing: In high quality mahogany frame * Overall Size: 18"x16"Condition: Excellent condition * "Only three weeks after Bull Run, the first major Civil War battle in the West was fought at Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Missouri. Confederate Colonel James McIntosh, above, led a charge of the Third Louisiana Infantry against a Union battery, an incident that helped turn the battle in the Confederate's favor. A few months later, at Pea Ridge in Arkansas, a Northern army defeated the Southerners and kept Missouri in the Union. * * * In the first major battle of the western theatre, a Louisiana brigade, carrying their state 'pelican' flag overran a federal artillery position and helped turn the tide into another victory for the South. * - Mort Kunstler