Portrait of Abolitionist Civil War General Clinton Fisk University 1866 Print

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Portrait of Abolitionist Civil War General Clinton Fisk University 1866 Print:
$14.75

Clinton B. Fisk

Engraved by William Wellstood

Overall Size : 9.75 by 6.50 inches.

This is a vintage engraved portrait published in an 1866 American literary and art publication.

Clinton Bowen Fisk (December 8, 1828 – July 9, 1890), for whom Fisk University is named, was a senior officer during Reconstruction in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. He endowed Fisk University with $30,000.[1] In addition, he helped establish the first free public schools in the South for white and African-American children.Fisk was born in York, Livingston County, New York, the son of Benjamin and Lydia Fisk.[1] As part of the 19th-century westward migration, his family soon moved to Coldwater, Michigan.[2] He studied in the preliminary course at Albion Seminary before becoming one of the five students to matriculate on the opening day of Michigan Central College (now Hillsdale College) in 1844.[3] Fisk later became a merchant, miller, and banker in Coldwater. He suffered financial disaster in the Panic of 1857. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he started working in the insurance business.
Civil WarAn abolitionist, Fisk was appointed colonel of the 33rd Missouri Infantry of the Union Army on September 5, 1862. He organized a brigade and was commissioned brigadier general November 24, 1862.[4] He served most of the American Civil War in Missouri and Arkansas, commanding first the District of Southeast Missouri and later the Department of North Missouri. The primary duty of these commands was opposing raids into Missouri by Confederate States of America cavalry and guerrillas.Freedmen\'s Bureau and Fisk UniversityAfter the Civil War, Fisk was appointed assistant commissioner of the Freedmen\'s Bureau for Kentucky and Tennessee.[5] He worked through the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands and the American Missionary Association to establish the first free schools in the Southern United States for both African-American and white children.He made the abandoned barracks in Nashville, Tennessee available to the American Missionary Association for the creation of the Fisk School, and endowed it with a total of $30,000.After authorizing legislation expired for the Freedmen\'s Bureau, Fisk returned to his native New York. He became successful in banking. In 1874 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him to the Board of Indian Commissioners.Fisk was a leader in the temperance movement and became the presidential candidate for the Prohibition Party in the United States presidential election, 1888. He came in third with 249,506 votes. The election was won by Benjamin Harrison of the Republican Party. Fisk was also surpassed by the incumbent President of the United States Grover Cleveland of the Democratic Party. But, Fisk did receive one of the highest results of any Prohibition Party candidate in history. The Party has run candidates in every presidential election since the United States presidential election, 1872.Fisk died in New York City on July 9, 1890, and was buried in Coldwater, Michigan.

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The portrait is printed on a high quality paper, blank on the reverse side. These vintage prints are renowned for their detail as well as their historical accuracy. This is not a modern reproduction or reprint. It is a vintage engraving, 150 years old and guaranteed to be as described.

Steel Engraving: A print produced by carving the lines of an image into a metal plate (copper or steel) with a tool called a burin. The lines produced by the carving are inked, and a dampened sheet of paper is pressed on to the plate. The ink is transferred to the paper producing the image. This type of printing was introduced in the 15th century and is a form of intaglio printing. A wood engraving is made in a similar fashion using wooden plates of oak or beech.

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