Original 19th Century double page engraving from "The Soldier In Our Civil War". "General Kilpatrick Setting Out On His Cavalry Raid To Rescue The Federal Prisoners Confined To Libby Prison And On Belle Isle". 16 1/2" X 21 1/2". **the paper is fragile & this engraving has a tear separation to the middle top area & the middle bottom, both of which would disappear once framed. Comes in original packaging as an inventory item from The American Heritage Galleries. The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid (February 28–March 3, 1864) was an ambitious attempt by Union cavalrymen to assault the lightly defended Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, and free prisoners of war during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The brainchild of the flamboyant Brigadier General H. Judson Kilpatrick, the raid turned into a fiasco when Kilpatrick’s men were stopped northwest of the city and a supporting column, under the command of twenty-one-year-old Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, was routed to the east. Dahlgren was killed, and papers found on his body, which were subsequently published by the Richmond press, detailed plans to burn the city and assassinate Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. Public opinion in both the North and the South was inflamed, and historians continue to debate the authority behind these so-called Dahlgren Papers. When she read of Dahlgren’s corpse being mistreated, Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union spy in Richmond, used her contacts secretly to exhume the body and rebury it elsewhere.