Martial law / engraved by John Sartain.

Title: Martial law / engraved by John Sartain.
Creator(s): Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Related Names:
Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879 , artist
Date Created/Published: [Columbia and Kansas City, Mo. : Published by Geo. C. Bingham & Co.], c1872.
Summary: The Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham's eloquent but belated reprisal for, as the title continues, 'the desolation of the border counties of Missouri, during the enforcement of military orders, issued by Brigadier General [Thomas] Ewing, of the Union Army, from his Head Quarters, Kansas City, Augt. 25th 1863.' The action took place during the Civil War, amid the violence and strife which beset the Kansas and Nebraska territories during the conflict over slavery. In retaliation for a murderous raid on Lawrence, Kansas, by guerillas operating from Missouri, Union commander Ewing. Missouri evacuated, Bingham's portrayal. burning houses can be seen in the distance. A black man with his young son depart the scene at lower right, weeping. both painted about 1869 or 1870.
Notes:
Painted by George Caleb Bingham, ca. 1869-70.
The Library's impression has been cut and rejoined, possibly with losses in vertical dimension.
'Entered ... Geo. L. Bingham ...'
Bloch, nos. 343, 352
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1872-13.
Subjects:
African Americans (portrayed).
Ewing, Thomas.
Farmers and farming.
Lawrence, Kans.
Missouri.
Mezzotints--1870-1880
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