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Interact with the full panorama at the National Museum of American History's web site, West Point in the Making of America

 

 




 

Travis panorama


This panorama entitled The Army of the Cumberland was painted by William D. T. Travis after the Civil War from on-the-spot sketches and memories accumulated while accompanying the army as a staff artist for Harper’s Weekly and the New York Illustrated News. There are thirty-two panels in all, beginning with a young soldier leaving home and family, and ending with the artist himself riding home after the war is over. The intervening panels depict the battles fought by the Army of the Cumberland, including Perryville, Stones River, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge. After completing the painting, Travis took it on a seven-year lecture tour of the Midwest.


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