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Artillery Sketches of Alfred Waud

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

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 →

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A Sketch of Stevenson Ridge, 1864

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Chris Mackowski

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 →

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Sketches from the Shenandoah: James Taylor’s Scrapbook

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Daniel Davis

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 →

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Drawing the War, Part 5: Thomas Nast

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Meg Groeling

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 →

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Drawing the War, Part 1: Alfred Waud

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Meg Groeling

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 →

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