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Drawings & Sketches

79,297 works

Pencil sketch of soldiers in formation before tents and buildings, with a mounted rider and a flagpole marked PMG.

Provost Marshals department. Hd. qtrs. Army Potomac

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a soldier questioning a bearded farmer, with children and horses in the background.

Questioning the farmer of the period on topography

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a riverbank with trees, two steamboats with smokestacks, and a tall structure at right.

Pittsburg landing

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a uniformed color bearer in a cap standing beside a flagpole with a flag above him.

Quartermasters Color bearer

Alfred Waud, 1860

Revenue cutter

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a paddle steamer with smokestack and lifeboat on calm river water, with a rowboat in the foreground.

Potomac River, Sept. 31st, 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a Rodman 10-pounder field cannon on a spoked-wheel carriage, with handwritten caption below.

Rodman 10 pounder field piece

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a crowd of soldiers near trees, with a small sailing boat and crouching figure in the upper right.

Rough sketch of a battle scene

Alfred Waud, 1860

Charcoal and chalk sketch of a ruined dwelling among trees and rocks, with a distant town across an open landscape.

Ruined dwelling, town in distance

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of firemen and a crowd among ruined, burnt buildings and rubble on a city street.

Richmond Firemen pushing down the remains of the burnt dwellings Capital Square

Alfred Waud, 1865

Grey paper sketch of several men in period dress, some with bags and hats, one raising a hand, titled Rebs taking the oath at

Rebs taking the oath at Richmond

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of a city street with a classical column, pedestrians in top hats, bare trees and a street lamp.

Richmond

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of soldiers holding rifles and an American flag greeting an officer at a camp in Virginia, 1861.

Reception of Col Wood by the 14th Brooklyn Regiment (after his return from Richmond) at Upton's Hill, Va., Tuesday, p.m.

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil drawing of ruined bridge piers over a river, with mounted riders wading and wooded hills behind, 1864.

Ruins of the bridge over the Shenandoah. Loudon Heights beyond

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and chalk sketch of a ruined mill with a large water wheel, gears, and a tall brick facade with windows.

Ruins of the water wheel in Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va.

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of a room interior with a table, doorway, and framed oval portrait on the wall.

Room interior in Abraham Lincoln's home, Springfield, Illinois

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of roustabouts gathered on a boat deck near a flagpole, some standing and some seated, as the boat departs.

Roustabouts singing as the boat leaves the dock

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of rifle pits and a wooden barricade across an open field, with a leafless tree and clouds, dated 1864.

Rifle pits, 5 corps, Petersburg

Alfred Waud, 1864

Graphite sketch of soldiers attacking across a field with smoke rising over trees and a mounted flag bearer on the right.

Rosser attacking the rear-Oct. 8th 1864 nr. Harrisonburg. Shenandoah Valley

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

Pencil sketch of soldiers, horses and a cannon moving through a village with smoke from artillery fire.

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

Alfred Waud, 1862

Charcoal sketch of soldiers advancing through smoky woods, with a mounted officer at right, on brown paper.

Rickett's advance against Rhodes division in the woods

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of mounted officers and horses in a field, with distant lines of troops and a farmhouse under a cloudy sky.

Reconnaissance of the Enemy's position in front of Fairfax Court House Oct. 18th 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a mounted officer riding past a two-story building with onlookers, soldiers and bare trees nearby.

Robert E. Lee leaving the McLean House following his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of a Civil War battlefield with mounted officers, a flag bearer, infantry lines and artillery smoke.

Rifle pits on the right of the Orange Turnpike occupied by the regulars on the first day and by the 6th corps subsequ…

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of infantry troops in formation across an open field with flags, smoke on the horizon, 1863.

Review at Falmouth 1863. Infantry of the Army of the Potomac

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat seated on the ground beside a tree.

Seated portrait of newspaper correspondent Frank Vaughan

Pencil sketch of a Russian ship with masts, rigging and a smokestack, with a distant shoreline and fort at right.

Russian ship

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a three-masted sailing ship and a steamship with a funnel on toned paper.

Sabine

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of soldiers firing a cannon salute with onlookers and a bare tree at left, 1861.

Salute of 161 guns

Alfred Waud, 1861

Sailing ship with three masts

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of soldiers roasting corn at a campfire and a foraging scene with a rider on horseback.

Scenes on the road- roasting corn and foraging

Alfred Waud, 1860