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

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Near Falmouth, Jany

drawing on olive paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 11.9 x 35.8 cm.

A.R. Waud.

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Lieutenant Hiram L. Hendley of Co

Medium: 1 photograph : ambrotype, hand-colored ; 5.0 x 3.7 cm (brooch)

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012;

Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Record page for image is here.

Civil War Portrait 018

Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany

Currier & Ives. Hand colored lithograph.

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Unidentified boy in Union zouave uniform with drum

Medium: 1 photograph : half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 15.6 x 12.5 cm (case).

Tom Liljenquist; 2012;

Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Record page for image is here.

Civil War Portrait 017

pontoon bridge on the move, 1863

Pontoon Wagons on their way from Aquia Creek to the Rappahannock – Sketched by Henri Lovie.  Published January 3, 1863 in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.

The picket guard. Who goes there. Friends

Title: The picket guard. “Who goes there?” “Friends.” “Dismount one friend, advance and give the countersign.”

  • Signed lower right: A.R. Waud.
  • Title inscribed below image.
  • Published in: Harper’s Weekly, Feb. 14, 1863.

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Battle of Stone River, Near Murfreesborough, Tenn

 

Title: Battle of Stone River, Near Murfreesborough, Tenn.–Dec. 31, 62. Jan. 2-3, 1863–Union (Gen. Rosecrans) … Conf. (Gen. Bragg) …

Copyrighted 1891 by Kurz & Allison – Art Publishers, 76 & 78 Wabash Ave, Chicago, U.S.A.

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Charge of the first brigade

Title: Charge of the first brigade, commanded by Col. M.B. Walker, on the Friday evening of the battle of Stone River January 2nd, 1863; in which the Rebels were repulsed with heavy loss, and driven behind their breastworks…. / sketched by A.E. Mathews, 31st. Reg., O.V.I.

“Middleton, Stobridge & C0. Lith. Cin. O.”

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An arrival in Camp–under the Proclamation of EmancipationAlfred Waud worked up this sketch from a photograph, probably made in his presence by David B. Woodbury on January 1, 1863. It was published in Harper’s Weekly, January 31, 1863, p. 6.

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When compared with the photograph, it shows that the photo is actually an reversed stereograph.

A Negro family coming into the Union lines

Photo shows African American men, women, and children seated in front of and inside a mule-drawn covered wagon. Artist Alfred Waud worked up a sketch from this photograph, probably made in his presence by David B. Woodbury on January 1, 1863. The drawing, called “An arrival in Camp–under the Proclamation of Emancipation” was published in Harper’s Weekly, January 31, 1863, p. 6 and is now at the Library of Congress.

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