Frank Leslie's 'Battle at Wilson's Creek' Illustration New York film Maxence Bridge

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Artist: Joan Miro

Translation: The Golden little Boy Artist - Selmar Baÿer

The graph paper backdrop makes this piece of art look similar to the notes of an engineering student

Director: Fred Schepisi

Frank Leslie's 'Battle at Wilson's Creek' Illustration New York film Maxence Bridge"Battle at Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Mo., between 5,500 Union Troops under Generals Lyon and Sigel, and 23,000 Confederates under Generals McCulloch and Price, August 10th, 1861." The Battle of Wilson's Creek is depicted here, and is notably the first major battle of the Trans Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. It is also when Nathaniel Lyon was killed the first Union general to die in the war. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper