An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag
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Item data
Title
An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
American History -- 1860s
Names
Taylor, James E., 1839-1901 (Artist)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1889
Date Issued: 1896
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AME-186
Subjects
Courage
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- 1860-1869
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Flags -- American -- 1860-1869
Campaigns & battles -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- 1860-1869
Soldiers -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- 1860-1869
Crippen, Benjamin, d. 1863
Genres
Notes
Content: Written on border: "1898 [i.e. 1896]."
Source Note: Campfire and battlefield : history of the conflicts and campaigns of the great Civil War in United States. (New York : 1896) Johnson, Rossiter (1840-1931), Author.
Physical Description
Halftone photomechanical prints
Extent: 1 print : b ; 22 x 29 cm. (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17613364
Barcode: 33333159319496
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1896
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1889. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1889). An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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