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Drawings & Sketches

79,297 works

Sketch of soldiers in uniform waving caps toward a seated woman at a table in an interior.

Soldiers waving caps at a woman

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a soldier leaning against a stuck wagon wheel, with faint figures and a horse in the background.

Soldier pushing against a stuck wagon wheel

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on grey-blue paper of soldiers in an open field with trees and a building on the horizon.

Soldiers preparing for battle

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a soldier in a kepi peering over a log while holding a rifle, with grass in the foreground.

Soldier peering over a log

Alfred Waud, 1860

Steam Sloop Pensacola brought to Washington under canvas from Pensacola, some time 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a columned state house with a spire, framed by trees and a small horse and carriage, by Alfred Waud, 1860.

State House, Columbia, South Carolina

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a standing soldier in a slouch hat, blanket over shoulders, smoking a pipe, with a rifle, on blue paper.

Soldier with blanket wrapped around shoulders

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a steamboat with a tall smokestack on brown paper, with the handwritten word Susquehannah beside it.

Susquehannah

Alfred Waud, 1860

The Arabia

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of soldiers and horses crossing a stream through a wooded landscape, grey-blue paper.

Sumners troops crossing the Chickahominy to Fair Oaks

Alfred Waud, 1862

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Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk drawing of a river dam with two cannons in the foreground and wooded hills beyond.

Taylor's Dam on the Rappahannock

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of trees, shrubs and a wagon on a road, inscribed 'Sutlers crossing Bull Run 61' by Alfred Waud.

Sutlers crossing Bull Run 61

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of soldiers at a Thanksgiving meal in a military camp with tents, a campfire, and a dog.

Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Charcoal and chalk drawing of soldiers charging a fort through smoke, with an American flag and fallen men in the foreground.

The 24th Corps charging a fort to the left

Alfred Waud, 1865

Sketch of uniformed men carrying rails from a rail fence under a cloudy sky, drawn in pencil and white chalk on brown paper.

Stripping a rail fence for fires

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of soldiers and women in long dresses gathered beneath large star-patterned flags, with a sentry at left.

The captured flags

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers with rifles at a campfire beside a river ford, with rolling hills and farm buildings in the backgro

The Army of the Potomac. Somerville Ford on the Rapidan

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a railroad switch with a signal post and diverging tracks across a flat landscape, on lined paper.

Switch on a railroad track

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of several standing figures including a woman in a bonnet, a man in a hat, and a soldier, with small head studi

Studies of child, woman, gentleman, African American man & soldier

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of soldiers in varied poses, including a prone figure, a marching soldier with a rifle, and a crouching figure.

Studies of soldiers in various positions

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of mounted officers watching infantry advance through smoke near trees, with handwritten notes below.

The advance upon Spotsylvania

Alfred Waud, 1864

Graphite and chalk sketch of Union soldiers charging through smoke, a flag bearer raising a banner, fallen men in the foregro

The 164th N.Y.V charging Col. killed

Alfred Waud, 1864

Sketch of a mounted soldier raising a sabre beside a running man in tall grass, with smoke behind them.

Surrender!!!

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a draped table with small objects on top, and a lamp shade with arched panels on the right.

Table and lamp shade

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a mounted rider and two soldiers with rifles in a wooded clearing, with handwritten caption.

Taking a despatch bearer near Chancellorsville

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch in horizontal panels of a farmhouse, trees, hedgerows and a cow in open countryside.

The army marching past Todds Tavern

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a mounted rider on a galloping horse beside several standing soldiers in caps and coats.

The C. de Paris riding into Yorktown with the first clear account of affairs at Williamsburg

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil and white-highlight sketch of soldiers and a mounted officer in a snowball fight across a snowy field with bare trees.

The snowball battle near Dalton, Georgia

Engraved battle scene of soldiers charging over rough ground toward a crater, one holding the American flag amid smoke.

The soldier in our Civil War - a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier…

Alfred Waud, 1893

Sketch of soldiers with a regimental flag and cannon on a sandbagged redoubt, with troops advancing across open ground.

The Mozart (40th N.Y.) and the Scott Life Guard (38th N.Y.) taking possession of the Red Redoubt nr. Yorktown, Sunday…

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of two mounted officers exchanging a message, with other riders behind them and handwritten caption below.

The Count of Paris carrying orders to Gen. Fitz John Porter during the Battle of Gaines Mill