Fort Trumbull, CT

Item MSC-65

Description

After the Civil War the U.S. Army had troops stationed at more than 250 military installations spread across the North American continent. These posts varied in size from a few crude buildings on the western frontier to massive fortifications mounting hundreds of guns. In 1870 Congress commissioned Seth Eastman, a retired brevet brigadier general, to produce a series of paintings for the House Military Affairs Committee.

In 1992, The Center of Military History for the United States Army published a set of ten prints representing the paintings of Army Forts by Seth Eastman. The above print is from that set. The print measures 16 x 20 inches.