Assault on Fort Sanders.

General Longstreet's Confederate assault on the fort on Nov. 29, 1863, was part of his unsuccessful attempt to retake Knoxville, held by Union forces under General Burnside. Between 1884 and 1894 Kurz and Allison published thirty-six chromolithographs of Civil War battles. These prints were valued for their naive artistry. The compositions are stylized, showing both Union and Confederate armies in panoramic "fishbowl" settings. This, together with an unpainterly treatment of human figures, lends an effect similar to the graphics seen in the earlier lithography of Currier & Ives.