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Drawings & Sketches

79,224 works

Pencil sketch of a wrecked wooden boat with broken mast and timbers lying in sand, on grey-green paper.

A wrecked boat

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a ballroom with chandeliers, standing figures and arched doorways on green paper.

Ballroom with figures

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a street with a barricade of dirt cars and timber in front of a cupola-topped building, Gettysburg, 1863.

Barricade at the R.R. Depot in Gettysburg, constructed of Dirt cars, timber, old carts, &c

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of two standing soldiers beside a cannon, a horse and gunners, with handwritten notes on grey paper.

Artillery men

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on tan paper of classical architectural details, including a pedimented portico, columns, and windows, labeled

Architectural details with notation- LINCOLN

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil and chalk sketch of artillerymen firing cannons with smoke over hills and trees at Allatoona Pass, 1864.

Battle of Allatoona Pass, Ga. Oct 5-64

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of artillery soldiers working mortars and cannon near tents, sandbags, a fence and a farmhouse.

Battery of mortars and light twelves. Lt. Jackson. 1st Connecticut heavy Arty. 18th Corps

Alfred Waud, 1864

Panoramic sketch of Fredericksburg town rooftops with white battle smoke rising over fields and a distant treeline.

Attack on the rebel works. Fredericksburg. Dec. 13th

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a horse-drawn army mail wagon leaving a headquarters post office tent, with soldiers and horses nearby.

Army Mail leaving Hd.Qts. Post Office. Army Potomac

Alfred Waud, 1863

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 a steamship with two smokestacks and a flag, labeled Atlanta or Fingal captured 1863 in Savannah.

Atlanta or Fingal captured 1863 in Savannah

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a farmhouse behind a picket fence and trees, with handwritten labels for mulberry and locust trees.

At Totopotomoy Creek, Va.

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and chalk sketch of a Civil War artillery battery firing cannons amid smoke, with soldiers and earthworks.

Battery No. 1.-100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Gloucester in front of Farenholts house

Alfred Waud, 1862

Drawing of artillery crews firing cannons across a field with smoke, fallen soldiers, wagons and a mounted officer.

Artillery of Smith's division commanded by Capt. Ayres engaging the rebels at White Oak Swamp

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a rough army camp with wooden huts, scattered logs, and trees along a dirt path.

Army camp

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of cavalry charging across a field with infantry lines, smoke, a farmhouse and artillery at right.

Barlow and Gibbons charge between the Mechanicsville road and swamp, June 3rd, 1864

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and a solitary tree in the foreground, with the handwritten label 'Ashby's Gap' above.

Ashby's Gap

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of rolling hills, tree lines and distant mountains on tan paper, inscribed 'at Gettysburg'.

At Gettysburg

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of Battery Creighton at Jacksonville, Florida, with a flagpole, tents, and pilings in water.

Battery Creighton. Jacksonville, Fla.

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch on grey-green paper of a mounted officer with a flag and infantry soldiers among trees.

Barlow's division, Wilderness Campaign

Alfred Waud, 1864

Wash drawing of artillery crews firing cannons amid smoke, with horsemen and a wagon in the foreground at White Oak Swamp.

Battle at White Oak Swamp Bridge

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil and chalk sketch of scattered animal bones, skulls and ribcages among grass on a tan paper ground.

Battle field relics

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a shoreline house with a flagpole and a rowboat with two people on the water.

Battery Beauregard, Bay Point Port Royal, S.C., captured 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil and wash drawing of a river ford and dam on the Rappahannock with soldiers on the bank and wooded hills behind.

Banks Ford and Scotts Dam on the Rappahannock

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of Battery Gregg, an earthwork fortification on Cummings Point near Charleston, with a soldier on the ramparts.

Battery Gregg. Cummings Pt. Charleston SC

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of uniformed men assembled in a room beneath a flag and curtains, with the word over written at lower right.

Assembled officers

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a pine-lined field with a dirt road, a rider on horseback, a log cabin, and smoke over distant trees.

Battle at Black River, March 16th, 65

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch in side view of two paddle steamers with sails and rigging, labeled Baltic and Atlantic.

Baltic and Atlantic

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pen and ink sketch of cavalry, a galloping cannon, and infantry advancing across an open field with smoke and trees.

Attack of Smith's Corps at Cold Harbor, Virginia, by Alfred Rudolph Waud

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and chalk drawing of wagon trains moving across a wide river landscape toward a depot with distant ships.

Bell-Plains (sic), the principal depot for stores

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of cavalry and wagons in pursuit across a field, with dust clouds, a flag, and an overturned wagon in the foreg

rebels from Yorktown Sunday morning Pursuit of the flying rebels from Yorktown Sunday morning. Alfred R. Waud, artist

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a valley with wooded hills, a covered bridge and farm buildings, labeled Battle of Ringgold, Ga., 1863.

Battle of Ringgold, Ga., Nov. 26, 1863

Alfred Waud, 1863