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Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part four)
(part four in a series) I’ve been tracking Alfred Waud across the Spotsylvania battlefield, trying to figure out why one of his sketches, “Advance on Spotsylvania,” bears the date “May 9” although it depicts events from May 10. The first … Continue reading
Alfred Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part three)
(part three in a series) I’ve come to believe Alfred Waud’s sketch “Advance on Spotsylvania,” dated May 9, is actually mis-dated. In the first two posts of this series, I’ve tried to lay out some of the breadcrumbs that led … Continue reading
Alfred Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part two)
(part two of a series) When Alfred Waud finally arrived on the Spotsylvania battlefield’s eastern front, he produced a sketch showing the Federal IX Corps on the outskirts of the village. Spotsylvania-based historian John Cummings has convincingly placed the location … Continue reading
Alfred Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part one)
(part one in a series) In my capacity as historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge on the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield, I recently did some work to pin down the approximate location where IX Corps division commander Brig. Gen. Thomas Greely Stevenson … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Newspapers, Primary Sources
Tagged Advance on Spotsylvania, Alexander Webb, alfred waud, Battle of Todd's Tavern, Bloody Angle, Brown House, Fredericksburg Road, Harper's Weekly, Library of Congress, Mule Shoe Salient, Ny River, Spotsylvania, Todd's Tavern, Upton's Assault, Waud's-Sketchy-Spotsy
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One Company Against Two Corps
June 3 always brings recollections of the 1864 battle of Cold Harbor. There, at least 1,100 Union soldiers were killed and 4,500 wounded in a bloody attack that Confederates easily repulsed in less than an hour. (7,000 is the usual … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Newspapers
Tagged alfred waud, Cold Harbor, Joseph T. Derry, Marietta, sketch art, Story of the Confederate States
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Artillery Sketches of Alfred Waud
Talk about being in the right place at the right time . . . our own Meg Groeling wrote a series of posts for ECW several years ago called “Drawing the War.” It featured the newspaper artists who were embedded … Continue reading
A Sketch of Stevenson Ridge, 1864
A couple weeks ago, as I was looking at Harper’s Weekly’s coverage of the Overland Campaign, I came across a fun unexpected surprise: a wartime illustration from Spotsylvania that shows Stevenson Ridge. The image, sketched by Alfred Waud, is labeled … Continue reading
Sketches from the Shenandoah: James Taylor’s Scrapbook
In the collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio rests With Sheridan Up the Shenandoah Valley. Leaves from a Special Artist’s Sketch Book and Diary. As the title implies, it is a book of incredibly realistic sketches and … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Civil War Events, Civilian, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 10th New York Infantry, alfred waud, Cincinnati, edwin forbes, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, James Taylor, Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, University of Notre Dame, Western Reserve Historical Society, William Waud
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Drawing the War, Part 5: Thomas Nast
Part five in a series. Uncle Sam? Santa Claus? Lady Columbia? The Republican Elephant? The Democratic Donkey? All of these images of America have the same source, Thomas Nast, cartoonist extraordinaire (and functional illiterate) for Harper’s Weekly. Born into a … Continue reading
Drawing the War, Part 1: Alfred Waud
first in a series In today’s world of instant messaging, instant downloads, iBooks, iPads, iPhones and iReporters, it is hard to imagine the difficulties of war reporting in the 1860s. Embedded journalists, sending news by telegraph (some called it “the … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Personalities
Tagged alfred waud, artists, drawing-the-war, journalism
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