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Mort Kunstler


Victory Rode the Rails Classic Giclee on Canvas

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Ideas for my paintings come from different sources and my newest painting, Victory Rode the Rails, is no exception. The name was inspired by the title of a fifty-year old book by George Edgar Turner. I was on my way to an appearance at Virginia's Shenandoah University when I encountered the historic site that led me to paint Victory Rode the Rails. Bill Austin, the director of the university's History and Tourism Center, had picked me up at the airport in Washington, D.C. As we passed near the town of Delaplane, Virginia, he said he wanted to show me something interesting. We crossed some railroad tracks and stopped in front of an old brick building, now housing an antiques store. During the Civil War, Bill told me, the structure was the railroad station for the town, at that time called Piedmont Station. It was here, I learned, that Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson and his troops boarded the train that would take them to the battle of First Manassas and everlasting fame.

What a great subject for a painting! The scene had never been painted, and I could include a building that still exists today - which I always enjoy. I consulted with award-winning historian James I. Robertson, Jr., author of the acclaimed biography, Stonewall Jackson, and with a very knowledgeable railroad historian, Courtney Wilson, who is executive director of the B & O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. And, as usual, I also studied a variety of historical works related to the subject. The more I learned, the more I wanted to paint this picture!

In the center of interest General Jackson sits on Little Sorrel, giving orders to his loyal aide, Lieutenant Colonel Sandy Pendleton, who is accompanied by Jackson's chief surgeon, Dr. Hunter McGuire. General Jackson, of course, still wears his blue VMI uniform. The Piedmont sign is clearly visible, and the tender of the locomotive bears the name of the Manassas Gap Railroad on its side. Overcrowding forced a large number of troops to ride atop the train cars next to where the brigade's horses are being loaded. Everything shown in the painting is supported by primary sources - eyewitness accounts, diaries, official records and memoirs. It's quite poignant, when you think about what awaited these young men at First Manassas. Also, here is Jackson - just another officer in a pre-war blue uniform - on the verge of becoming the famous Stonewall. To me, it was an extraordinary event that begged to be recorded - an absolutely absorbing, colorful expression of our American heritage.

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