Baxter's Philadelphia Fire Zouaves Being Reviewed by President Lincoln at the White House, Washington, D.C.

Civil War drawings collection, approximately 1861-1865.

New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, 212-873-3400

Early September 1861

Drawing: Graphite on paper. 8 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. Lincoln at the front of a reviewing stand surrounded by crowds. A company of Zouaves marches past. Soldiers lift their caps to Lincoln. Inscribed along lower edge: 'The Philadelphia Fire Zouaves being reviewed / by President Lincoln--Wanslley--RN[orPM?] --.'

Reproduced in Phillip Van Doren Stern, They were There: The Civil War in Action as Seen by its Combat Artists (New York: Crown, 1959), pg. 36, pl. 34 and in Roberta J. M. Olson, Drawn By New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings from the N-YHS (London: Giles, 2008), 310-311.

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 114th (1862-1865)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Zouaves--1860-1870
Military parades & ceremonies--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870
Washington (D.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

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Drawing: Graphite on paper. 8 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. Lincoln at the front of a reviewing stand surrounded by crowds. A company of Zouaves marches past. Soldiers lift their caps to Lincoln. Inscribed along lower edge: 'The Philadelphia Fire Zouaves being reviewed / by President Lincoln--Wanslley--RN[orPM?] --.'