Mort Kunstler - I'll Be Moving Within the Hour - Collectible Civil War Print. This print is framed.

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I apologize for not having the entire print as my first print. This site is pulling Civil War prints off due to the flag. So I am minimizing the flag in the print. I hope you understand.

" I'll Be Moving Within The Hour "

by Mort Kunstler Collectible Civil War Print

---- Generals Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, & Stuart ----

Battle of the 2nd Manassass

Mort Kunstler - The strategic planning that always seemed to precede great victories by Lee and Jackson is fascinating to me. My 1990 painting, The Last Council, depicts one of their dramatic conferences and I had been searching for a similar event to paint.

I found it in the classic memoir by Major Henry Kyd Douglas, one of "Stonewall" Jackson's staff officers. Longstreet's autobiography, From Manassas to Appomattox, mentions the same meeting, and so does Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants. The incident occurred at the beginning of the Second Manassas Campaign in August of 1862. It was a unique, crucial battle conference that General Lee held with Jackson, Longstreet, and Stuart. This excerpt from Douglas' memoir inspired painting "I Will be Moving Within the Hour."

"A council of war was held at the General's headquarters that afternoon. It was a curious scene. A table was placed almost in the middle of a field, with not even a tree within hearing. General Lee sat at the table on which was spread a map. General Longstreet sat on his right, General Stuart on his left, and General Jackson stood opposite him; these four and no more... The consultation was a brief one. As it closed I was called by General Jackson and I heard the only sentence of that consultation that I ever heard reported. It was uttered by the secretive Jackson, and it was, 'I will be moving within the hour.'"

The painting depicts this important event. Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, and Stuart are seen at the little table in the middle of the grassy field, surrounded by terrain typical of the Manassas region. Nearby, above General lee's headquarters tent, the first national flag of the Confederacy is ruffled by a breeze, alongside the Confederate battle flag. The elevated viewpoint provides the opportunity to depict Lee's great Army of Northern Virginia - troops, tents, wagons, etc. - sprawled across the scenic Virginia countryside.

This is a part of a series called Jackson and Lee: Legends in Gray, which depicts key scenes in the remarkable wartime relationship between Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson. I hope our friends, collectors, and students of the war will share my enthusiasm for this series.

This is a beautiful collectible limited-edition Print.

------ SOLD OUT PRINT EDITION -----

---- Personally Hand Signed by Mort Kunstler ---

The Image Size Is About --- 28 1/2" x 14 1/8"

Framed print - if you live near Myrtle Beach I will make every effort to get it to you. If you do not want it framed I have another print not framed. Please message me if you have questions. The shipping price is for the print only. To ship a heavy large framed print will be around $400 UPS depending upon where you live. Jane Eason