A gloomy day at Williamsburg, rain falling heavily, all hazy, May 5, 1862
Drawn by Alfred R. Waud.
- Signed lower right: A.R. Waud.
- Title inscribed below image.
- Inscribed upper left: Beyond first line of soldiers a mass of felled trees while the heads of a second line in it engaged. Represent soldiers with pants rolled up some with high boots, and some with socks drawn over pants thus. Inscribed within image as indicators: Woods mostly pine trees; Gloomy day rain falling heavily. all hazy. Guns deep in mud. Men and horses same; Mud and water; General and Staff in overcoats and india rubber ponchos; all mud; fences; direction of Williamsburg; our skirmishers in rifle pits; men laying down; Ft. Magruder; Road; Skirmishers.
- Published in: Harper’s Weekly, May 24, 1862, p. 332.
- Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.759)
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/2004660492/
