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Drawings & Sketches

79,297 works

Pencil sketch of artillery and soldiers on a battlefield with dead horses, trees, and a grave yard in the background.

Battle of Bristow Station

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a bedroom with a chest of drawers, a chair, a bed, and a window on the back wall.

Bedroom, Abraham Lincoln home in Springfield, Illinois

Alfred Waud, 1865

Benjamin Butler

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of an open rolling landscape with tree lines, a small barn, and figures in the foreground, 1864.

Birney's Div. across the N. Anna

Alfred Waud, 1864

Brown wash drawing of Civil War combat at Gettysburg, with soldiers, cannons, an American flag and smoke over a battlefield.

Battle of Gettysburg. Longstreet's attack upon the left center of the Union lines. Blue Ridge in distance

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil and chalk drawing of soldiers and cavalry on a battlefield with artillery smoke bursting across open ground.

Before Petersburg at sunrise, July 30th 1864

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a rolling landscape with trees, small buildings, and a distant treeline, with handwritten notes

Battlefield landscape

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a small log cabin with stone chimney beneath trees on a grassy hill, labeled beyond Elijay.

Beyond Elija

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of soldiers, wagons and horses on a village street beside log buildings and trees, titled Big Bethel.

Big Bethel

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil and chalk battle sketch of soldiers, a mounted officer, a cannon and fallen men under smoky skies.

Battle of Friday on the Chickahominy

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a standing soldier in a kepi cap carrying a bundled roll over one shoulder.

Black soldier

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers at rifle pits near a river bridge, with a mounted rider in the foreground and tents on a distant ri

Bridges and rifle pits at U.S. Ford-in the Rappahannock from rebel shore

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a bust-length soldier in a cap and buttoned coat, drawn on tan paper.

Bust-length portrait of a soldier

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of soldiers building a log bridge beside a wagon, and men tending a smoldering charcoal fire in woods.

Building military bridges. Making charcoal for the army force

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on green paper of a palisade pen with soldiers, a mounted rider, tents and trees, captioned Bull Pen.

Bull Pen - Hd. qtrs A of P.

Alfred Waud, 1860

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 a tree-lined road over a bridge with two mounted riders and a standing soldier, on tan paper.

Bridge through the Chickahominy Swamp

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil and chalk sketch of a shallow ford beside a wooden mill, with bare trees, rolling hills and small figures on the shore

Blind Ford & Scotts Mill

Alfred Waud, 1863

Soldiers firing rifles amid smoke near a wooden building, with a kneeling soldier and a fallen figure in the foreground.

Bloody fight at Occoquan, Va.

Alfred Waud, 1862

Night drawing of burning houses and barns with smoke, with soldiers at a stone wall and mounted officers in the foreground.

Burning of Mr. Muma's (sic) houses and barns at the fight of the 17th of Sept.

Alfred Waud, 1862

Bust Portrait of soldier with German-style helmet

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a military tent with a flag on a tall pole, a standing soldier, and trees in an open field.

Blenkers Tent

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a wooden trestle bridge over a river with wooded hills, annotated as the Monocacy battle site, 1864.

Bridge over Monocacy, Scene of Lew Wallace battle with Early, 1864

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch on green paper of Brandy Station, showing a two-story house, outbuildings, a flagpole, and a distant hill.

Brandy Station

Alfred Waud, 1863

Broadside and bow views of eight ships and boats, and an unidentified profile bust portrait

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil bust portrait of a bearded officer in uniform with shoulder insignia, turned to the side.

Bust portrait of an officer

Alfred Waud, 1860

Broadside views of three ships- Kanawha; Blockade runner Joe Flanner, captured by Pembina 1863 off Mobile; and Elias…

Alfred Waud, 1863

Broadside views of three sidewheel steamships - U.S. Transport Ericcson, U.S. Transport Mayflower, and U.S. Transport…

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of three paddle steamships in side view, with handwritten notes identifying the vessels.

Broadside views of three steamships

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of two banks flanking a narrow canal, labeled Butlers Canal, Dutch Gap, by Alfred Waud, 1864.

Butlers Canal, Dutch Gap

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of horse-drawn artillery guns moving into position past a fence, with soldiers and mounted officers.

Butlers battery going into position

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of Birneys Station railway with a wagon, horses, figures, a water tower and telegraph poles, 1864.

Birneys Station. U.S.M.R.R. Petersburg Va.

Alfred Waud, 1864