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Drawings & Sketches

79,475 works

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

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