Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

Battery No. 1–Opposite Yorktown

May 2, 2012

Library of Congress

Battery No 1-100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Gloucester in front of Farenholts house

Battery No. 1.–100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Gloucester in front of Farenholt’s house.

May 2, 1862 – drawn by Alfred R. Waud.

  • Signed lower right: AR Waud.
  • Title inscribed below image.
  • Inscribed within image: River. Inscribed upper right: Yorktown in distance as in sketch No 6. guns firing.
  • Published in: Harper’s Weekly, June 7, 1862, p. 360-1.
  • Dated from Harper’s Weekly.
  • Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.729)

Part of Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Record page for this drawing: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004660461/

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