The image is a painting titled The Pell Mell Charge by American artist William Trego, created in 1887.
- The painting depicts a charge by the 5th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, an intense engagement during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.
- It is an oil on canvas painting and is owned by the History Colorado museum.
- The work is notable for its dynamic rendering of the horses in motion, recalling the photographic experiments of Eadweard Muybridge.
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