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The Patriots of 61 by Keith Rocco. \u003cp\u003e For many Americans, the early months leading up to, and during, the first year of the Civil War, were months spent in a flurry of patriotic activities. Few have expressed these times better than H.E. Sterkx, In the beginning patriotism became the prevailing emotion of the day and it affected old and young alike with the determination to do something, almost anything to help. Some designed flags for the republic, others made banners and delivered presentation speeches for local military units, and there were still many more who dedicated themselves to the tremendous task of encouraging men to enlist in the armed forces. It was a time like no other-- because it offered a rare opportunity for females to participate in public affairs. The roles which women played in supporting the war -north and south- through their domestic talents were noted, and honored, and praised at the time. Today, however, they are often overlooked.  For the vast majority of women, contributions to the war effort required traditional, domestic skills--sewing flags, or uniforms, knitting socks, and providing foodstuffs, extra blankets and a myriad of items from home. Many soldiers noted that it was these goods--along with letters of encouragement--that allowed them to continue on when the realities of war overwhelmed them. The Patriots of 61 were the War Workers of 1862-65, ministering to the physical, medical, psychological, and spiritual needs of soldiers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLast copy of this sold out edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Signed limited edition of 500 prints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Military Aviation Art Prints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54136087478605,"sku":null,"price":210.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/5449\/9149\/files\/2026NEWkr0003.jpg?v=1781873067"},{"product_id":"always-ready-by-keith-rocco","title":"Always Ready by Keith Rocco.","description":"KR0004. Always Ready by Keith Rocco. \u003cp\u003e It was the morning of September 17, 1862 -- a day destined to become the bloodiest 24 hours in American history -- and the 9th New York quietly steadied themselves for the trial to come.  The Ninth New York was one of the Federal Army's most colorfully-uniformed commands, clad in exotic regalia inspired by the famed French colonial troops called Zouaves. Like many Yankee Zouave units, at the outbreak of war in April, 1861 these sons of Manhattan had raillied to the cause behind a dashing and charismatic leader Rush Hawkins.  Colonel Hawkins was not present at Antietam; ten days earlier he had returned to New York on leave of absence, and the Ninth would go into battle under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Edgar. A. Kimball. While lacking Rush Hawkins good looks and sartorial splendor, Kimball was equally determined that the Ninth New York live up to the inscription emblazoned on the red silk of the regimental colors: Toujours Pret--Always Ready. Morning had given way to afternoon and hundreds of men had fallen in repeated attempts to storm the lower bridge of the Antietam before Isaac Rodmans Federal division got underway. With the Ninth New York and Colonel Harison Fairchild's brigade leading the way, Rodmans troops began crossing the creek at Snavelys Ford, just south of the position held by General Robert Toombs stalwart Georgians. As the Confederates fell back before Burnsides troops, Southern artillery on the heights directed their fire at the ponderous Federal masses. The Practice of the rebel artilleryment was something wonderful in its accuracey, Second Lieutenant Matthew J. Graham recalled; they dropped shot and shell right into our line repeatedly.  Lieutenant Graham was hugging the earth with his comrades in Company H. when he heard his commander shout Get up the Ninth!  I turned over quickly to look at Colonel Kimball, who had given the order, Graham later wrote, thinking he had become suddenly insane. The Lieutenant rose from the ground, firmly believing that the regiment would not last one minute after the men got fairly on their feet. But Kimball led his Zouaves forward, over the undulating, steadily rising ground. The air was filled with a deluge of bullets, grape, canister and shell, wrote Charles Johnson, who fell with a shot through the left hip. The mental strain was so great, David Thompson observed, the whole landscape for an instant turned slightly red. Awed by Libaires desperate act of gallantry, the New Yorkers regained their momentum. Captain Lawrence Leahy raised the other banner, and followed Libaire, as did Lieutenant Colonel Kimball, Adjutant Homer, and First Lieutenant Robert McKechnie of Company H -- all shouting Forward! With their flags and surviving officers at the very apex of the charge, the Zouaves surged ahead to the wall, forcing Draytons troops from the corpse-strewn breastwork. Ahead of the thinning Federal line, across 500 yards of open meadow, Georgians and South Carolinians of Brigadier General Thomas F. Draytons brigade awaited the oncoming Yankees from the shelter of a low stone Wall. When the Ninth New York had approached to within 200 yards of the Rebel position at the stone wall, Lieutenant Colonel Kimball shouted the command Double quick, charge! A deadly volley blazed out from the muskets of Draytons Confederates, and at such close range the destruction in the Zouave ranks was terrible. Scores of men fell on top of one another, Private Wright recalled, while Lieutenant Graham, his right let shattered at the knee, noted We all went down together. Struggling to rise, Graham discovered that the Color Guard had been obliterated, and the regimental flags lay on the ground. One or two men staggered to their feet and reached for the colors, the officer remembered, but were shot down at once. Suddenly Captain Adolphe Libaire, the 22 year old French-born commander of Company E--the Zouaves Color Company--dashed forward and snatched up the fallen regimental banner. According to Lieutenant Homer, Libaire was habitually quiet, modest and unassuming. But rising to the crisis, the soft-spoken Captain was a man possessed. Raising the flag, Libaire waved it over his head and yelled, Up, dam you, and forward! -- then sprinted for the wall. That Forward, I for one will never forget while I live, Zouave William Cockefair wrote 35 years later; all he required was that we follow him. He showed the way. It was a deed that would later earn the young Frenchman the Medal of Honor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJust one print available - an ex-display print.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Signed limited edition of 500 prints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Image size 24 inches x 16.5 inches (61cm x 42cm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Military Aviation Art Prints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54136087511373,"sku":null,"price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/5449\/9149\/files\/2026NEWkr0004.jpg?v=1781873066"},{"product_id":"the-last-full-measure-1st-minnesota-regiment-at-gettysburg-by-keith-rocco","title":"The Last Full Measure, 1st Minnesota Regiment at Gettysburg by Keith Rocco.","description":"KR0006. The Last Full Measure, 1st Minnesota Regiment at Gettysburg by Keith Rocco. \u003cp\u003e General Winfield Scott Hancock, commander of the Union Second Corps was trying to avert a disaster on the Union center. The exposed Third Corps was overrun and fleeing the battlefield, with the victorious Confederates in pursuit. This breakthrough opened an avenue to the Union rear that threatened the whole army. Hancock needed men to buy him time to bring reinforcements up to plug the gap in the Federal line. The general observed a body of men lying in a slight hollow, just behind the crest of Cemetery Ridge, to the left of the cemetery. He spurred his horse to this position. Hancock spied Colonel William Colvills 1st Minnesota Infantry, 1st brigade, 2nd division, Second Corps. These men were in reserve, but they had been watching the battle unfold through the dense clouds of gunsmoke that clung to the ground on this sultry summer day. The 1st Minnesota was understrength, shouldering but 262 muskets this day. The regiment had been bloodied on every field, from First Bull Run through Chancellorsville, and was further weakened by detachments. This single, undermanned regiment was the only Union force at hand. My God! exclaimed Hancock when he saw them, Are these all the men we have here! What regiment is this? he demanded. First Minnesota, replied Colvill. Charge those lines, Hancock ordered, pointing in the direction of the Peach Orchard and Plum Run. Hancock and Colvill looked at each other, Hancock knowing what he had ordered and Colvill realizing both the necessity and the grim implications of it. Forward, double-quick, Colvill barked to his men. With bayonets fixed, and rifles at right-shoulder shift, the 1st Minnesota charged down the slope toward Cadmus Wilcoxs Confederate brigade, which was then reforming its lines in the marshy terrain along Plum Run. The Minnesotans advanced along a hundred yard front, with both flanks in the air. Losing men at every step, they continued forward. As the Federals neared the enemy, they leveled their bayonets and charged. The ferocity of this assault stunned the Confederates, driving back the first line of defenders, staggering their advance. Then, as both lines steadied, they exchanged volleys at a distance of thirty yards. Though his line continued to melt away, Colvills Minnesotans traded their lives for the precious minutes Hancock required. In just fifteen minutes it was over. Only 47 men, commanded by a sergeant, rallied to the 1st Minnesotas banner. Two hundred fifteen of their comrades, all of their officers, including Colvill, lay on the field. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Signed limited edition og 500 prints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Image size 24 inches x 17 inches (61cm x 43cm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Military Aviation Art Prints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54136087544141,"sku":null,"price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/5449\/9149\/files\/2026NEWkr0006.jpg?v=1781873069"},{"product_id":"the-rear-guard-by-keith-rocco","title":"The Rear Guard by Keith Rocco.","description":"KR0014. The Rear Guard by Keith Rocco.  \u003cp\u003e 11th Hussars in Germany, 1796.  In 1796, the revolutionary government of France lauched a series of military campaigns they hoped would defeat the nations allied against their new republic. While 27-year old General Napoleon Bonaparte was conducting his hard-fought but ultimately glorious campaign in Northern Italy, his military and political rival General Jean Victor Moreau and the ill-clad and worn out French Army of the Rhine and the Moselle desperately tried to stave off defeat at the hands of Austrias able field commander Archduke Charles. On 22 October 1796, Moreau ordered his tired but determined soldiers to stand on good defensive terrain near the Chateau of Schliengen (accurately depicted in the right background) buying time for his supply and ammunition wagons to cross to safety over the Rhine River at Huninge. In such dangerous situations, it was the duty of the Hussars and other light cavalry to cover the movements of the army. The 11th Hussars was raised during the Ancien Regime, from volunteers attracted to the glamorous life popularly attributed to the hussars. While the hussars would indeed fulfill their romantic promise of glory during the Napoleonic Wars, the battles of the revolution served as a trying apprenticeship. Vastly understrength and poorly employed due to inexperience, the hussars were not yet an even match for the more professional light cavalry of Austria and Prussia. 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Victory or Death by Keith Rocco. \u003cp\u003e For many who study the American Civil War, April 6, 1865, has come to be known as Black Thursday for the Confederacy. Three days earlier, General Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia had evacuated the defenses protecting Richmond and Petersburg with the intention of heading towards North Carolina. Unfortunately for the Southern army, such plans were not meant to be. On April 5, as Lee departed Amelia Court House with his army, he found the Federal army entrenched across his path at Jetersville station on the Richmond \u0026amp; Danville Railroad. Choosing not to bring on an engagement, instead the Confederate commander determined he would make a night march around the Union roadblock. The Confederate army now began heading in a westward direction toward Farmville. At this point he was told, rations would be available for his men before they continued on with their journey to North Carolina. All went well through most of the morning of the 6th. Finally in mid-afternoon, while the army was crossing a small watercourse known as Little Sailors Creek, Union cavalry began a series of hit and run tactics on the Confederate column. Confederate General Ewells corps was preparing for an impending attack by Union infantry which was now arriving on the scene. The two armies would first come in contact around the farmhouse of James Moses Hillsman which overlooked the creek. After brief skirmishing around the house, the Confederate forces fell back and across the creek, digging in on the high ground overlooking it. Shortly after 5:00 P.M., Union artillery now positioned around the Hillsman house opened fire on Ewells line. The Confederates, having no artillery with which to reply, were on the receiving end of a bombardment which would last approximately a half-hour. Upon its deadly completion, two divisions moved down to and over the creek, reforming to assault Ewells position on the heights. As the Federal infantry moved up the slope against the Southern battleline, some of the Union soldiers would actually wave handkerchiefs as an invitation for Ewells men to surrender. In response to this Ewells men rose and fired a volley into the enemy ranks, breaking a portion of the Federal line. Those Confederate forces in front of this breach then made a counter-attack, pushing some of the Union soldiers all the way back to the creek. Leading this impromptu offensive was Colonel Crutchfield, formerly Stonewall Jacksons Chief of Artillery. In the ensuing struggle, Crutchfield would be killed and Major Robert Stiles of the Chaffins Bluff Garrison would assume command. Eventually General Custis Lee would order these men back to their original post as the Federal army was now preparing for a second major assault upon their line. With both of Wrights divisions now across Little Sailors Creek and reassembled, the Southerners prepared for another attack. This time the Union battleline actually overlapped both flanks of the Confederate position. As the two forces locked themselves in deadly hand-to-hand combat, slowly groups of Ewells men began surrendering. The scene being depicted in this painting shows the last stand of the Savannah Volunteer Guards as it is about to receive the final Federal attack. By this time, the Guards can only muster eighty-five men. With the colors being planted on the road side, Union soldiers of the 121st New York Infantry are reaching the crest of the ridge. Sergeants Richard Millen and Simeon Morton rally the Guards around the battalion flag. Soon, both men will be shot down. Finally, Major Basinger, seeing the hopelessness of the situation, signals for surrender. It was shortly thereafter, that Harris S. Hawthorne of the 121st would retrieve the battalion's flag; he is also credited with the capture of General Custis Lee. 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Lions of the Hour by Keith Rocco. \u003cp\u003e The VMI Cadets at the battle of New Market, May 15th, 1864.\u003cbr\u003eThroughout that Sunday, May 15th, 1864, the Federal and Confederate armies fought over possession of Jacob Bushong's orchard and wheat field near the town of New Market, Virginia.Suffering the combined effect of the Union muskets and artillery's canister rounds, the center of the rebel line, companies from 51st, 30th and 62nd Virginia regiments evaporated. Confederate General Breckinridge quickly realized his options: repair the gap in his line or fall back. With the VMI cadets as his only available reserve, he hesitated. \u003ci\u003e'Put the boys in,'\u003c\/i\u003e he commanded at last, \u003ci\u003e'And may God forgive me for the order.'\u003c\/i\u003eThe cadets moved forward in characteristic parade ground precision, suffering their first casualties as they descended the slope leading towards Bushong's Farm. The fire intensified around the outbuildings and the mud pulled at their boots. Struggling forward through the churned up barnyard, they crossed the white farm fences, reaching the rail fence on the north edge of the orchard. Letting loose a volley, the fresh, excited cadets filled the gap in the faltering Confederate line.Once again the Confederate forces moved forward. Sigel attempted to organize a counterattack but unsupported, this force collapsed and retreated to the north followed closely by the deterioration of the entire Union line. The Confederates now rushed into the wheat field and through the position just moments before defended by Union cannoniers.The cadets briefly engaged the few remaining Federals of Von Klieser's Battery still attempting to defend their cannon. 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