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Young girl with clasped hands

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of the steamboat Sykes on rough water with smoke, a rowboat of crew, and a sailing ship at right.

Quartermasters Tugboat Sykes, carrying mail off Mobile

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a two-story house with tall chimneys, a small outbuilding, and bare trees on tan paper.

Headquarters of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, during the battle of the 1st Bull Run

Edwin Forbes, 1862

Pencil sketch of a ruined city skyline with burned buildings and chimneys, with workers with picks along a river bank.

View of burned district Richmond

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of uniformed men and a woman in a wooden office room at Libby, with handwritten notes above and below.

Lt. Bishop A.P.M. receiving prisoners in the room in Libby where our soldiers used to be robbed by the chivalry (?)

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of a covered wagon with passengers pulled by horses along a road, with a fence and trees in the background.

In search of freedom

Edwin Forbes, 1863

Pencil sketch of Union soldiers in coats and caps marching with shovels and rifles toward trenches near a bare tree.

Going to the trenches-a sketch in Camp Winfield Scott. Before Yorktown

Alfred Waud, 1862

Brown wash sketch of soldiers and cannons on an open field, an officer pointing ahead under a cloudy sky.

Advance of the Army towards Lewinsville

Alfred Waud, 1861

Sketch of two riders galloping toward a log cabin as men sit and a soldier waves, with pine trees behind.

A race for camp

Edwin Forbes, 1876

Pencil sketch of troops and crowds gathered around a wooden gallows platform during a military hanging in Washington, 1862.

First military execution in Washington; hanging of a private for shooting his superior officer

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers building a pontoon bridge across a river toward a smoky town with buildings and bare trees.

Building pontoon bridges at Fredericksburg Dec. 11th

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of infantry regiments marching in review on an open field, with mounted officers, flags and spectators.

Review of the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Gen. Joe E. Hooker, by President Abraham Lincoln

Edwin Forbes, 1863

Pencil sketch of a steamboat with a tall smokestack, rigging and a flag on tan paper.

A boat

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a town street with church towers, marching soldiers with rifles, and onlookers near a fence.

Middleton M.D. near South Mountain

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a ruined stone railway bridge pier over a stream, with a temporary bridge, wagons and soldiers in a wooded l

Ruins of the Orange and Alexandria R.R. bridge over Bull Run, near Union Mills

Edwin Forbes, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers on horseback crossing a river near a damaged log bridge, with bare trees behind.

Soldiers on horseback crossing a river near a collapsed bridge

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of a Confederate earthwork with embrasures, a flag, and a soldier standing on the parapet.

Rebel works beyond Munsons Hill embrasured

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a military wagon camp with a covered wagon, a tent, a small campfire and men resting among trees.

The wagon camp

Edwin Forbes, 1864

Pencil sketch of a crowded room with figures around a bed, annotated with names and the caption Death of Lincoln.

Death of Lincoln

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil and chalk sketch of a log signal station with a flag on a wooded hilltop, with stumps and fallen logs in the foregroun

Signal Station on Maryland heights highest point occupied by the army

Alfred Waud, 1860

Watercolor landscape of a cottage and trees beside a calm river, with a fisherman in a boat and hazy mountains behind.

Albany

Henry Kirke Brown, 1882

Sketch of a funeral service in a grand hall with a chandelier, uniformed officers, a guard, and a casket draped with flowers.

Funeral service over Col. Ellsworth at the White House East Room

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of soldiers and mounted troops in battle, with flag bearers, on tan paper.

Attack on the rear guard. Amelia Ct. Ho

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of captured Confederate prisoners marching under mounted Union guards, with wagons and a farmhouse on the hill

The battle of Gettysburg-Prisoners belonging to Gen. Longstreet's Corps captured by Union troops, marching to the rea…

Edwin Forbes, 1863

Pencil and chalk sketch of soldiers carrying a wounded man through flames in a burning forest, with wounded men on the ground

Wounded escaping from the burning woods of the Wilderness

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of soldiers in formation across an open landscape with mounted officers and hills in the distance.

McClellan reviewing his troops near Baileys Cross Roads

Alfred Waud, 1861

Dick, the cook, sketched near Culpeper C(ourt) H(ouse)

Edwin Forbes, 1863

Pencil sketch of a bearded soldier with a rifle, with two detail studies of the weapon's stock and lock.

Full-length portrait of soldier with rifle and details of the weapon

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a road beside a post office with figures on the sidewalk and trees and a hillside on the right.

Saint Dennis Post-office, Baltimore County, Maryland

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketches of soldiers' winter huts, showing a man chopping wood, a turf-covered dugout with laundry, and a tent with sm

Soldiers' huts in winter camp

Edwin Forbes, 1863

Pencil sketch of an open field with distant trees, a shaded stump in the foreground, and handwritten notes reading after the

After the mine Petersburg

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a mounted military review with cavalry, flags, horseback officers, spectators and a carriage on an open fiel

Review at Falmouth. March 1863

Alfred Waud, 1863