A print based upon an eyewitness sketch by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers, this is one of the earliest printed images of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The view shows the town's Parish Church and beyond it in the left distance and flying the U.S. flag is Fort Marcy, named for the U.S. Secretary of War. Begun shortly after Kearny's force occupied the town on August 18, 1846, the fort was an irregular structure of adobe bricks and pine logs mounting several cannon. It was laid off by Lieutenant Gilmer of the Corps and L.A. MacLean of Reid's company of the First Missouri Volunteers. See Sandweiss, Stewart, and Huseman, Eyewitness to War (1989), pp.142-143, no. 26.
Date: 1846-00-00 1848-00-00
Format: images
Publisher and Date Published: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers 1848-00-00
Language: English
Publication Place: Washington (District of Columbia)
Contributor:
Grosvenor, Horace
Creator:
Abert, James William
Call Number: F 786 .U571
Source Title: Notes of a military reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers / By Lieut. Col. W. H. Emory. Made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the
