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Travis panorama
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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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Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces
History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution
Behring Center
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