Death Gallery

Deacon Giless Distillery temperance cartoon, 1830s

"Bringing back the rum," temperance cartoon showing liquor barrels labeled with forms of death, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hand-colored woodcut from an 1830s temperance pamphlet

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Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson mortally wounded by his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Battle of Princeton, 1777

Battle of Princeton, in which General Mercer met his death, American Revolution, 1777.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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