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Drawings & Sketches

79,297 works

Pencil sketch of a fallen tree trunk, willows and pines, with farm buildings on a hill beside a river.

Willows and pines

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of two wrecked steamers with smokestacks sticking out of a river, with trees along the distant shore.

Wreck of Transport Steamers "Maple leaf" and "Genl. Hunter". St. Johns river. Florida, Sunk by torpedoes

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and chalk sketch of soldiers carrying a wounded man through flames in a burning forest, with wounded men on the ground

Wounded escaping from the burning woods of the Wilderness

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a riverboat and waterfront structures with a flagpole, labeled Winona.

Winona. (Ironclad)

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of the steamship Winooski moored at a harbor, with masts, rigging, smokestacks and small boats nearby.

Winooski

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and wash sketch of mounted cavalry in the foreground with smoke and fires rising over a distant landscape.

The 3rd Custer div. on the 7th of Octr. retiring and burning the forage Etc. Somewhere near Mt. Jackson

Alfred Waud, 1864

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of an overturned wagon with broken wheels lying in muddy water under trees.

Wrecked wagon

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a winter landscape with bare trees, an evergreen, a rail fence and a standing figure with a rifle.

Winter picket duty

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of log huts and canvas tents in a winter military camp near Petersburg, 1864, by Alfred Waud.

Winter quarters headquarters Meades Station nr. Petersburg-1864

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a woman in a bonnet steering a boat with a hilly shoreline behind her.

Woman at the helm of a boat

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a stationary steam engine sawing wood at a station beside a railway, with tall pines and smoke rising.

Wood Station. 2 miles from City point. Stationary engine, sawing wood

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of wooden water tanks on a trestle beside a small building, with trees and a track in the foreground.

Water tanks. Big Shanty. W & A.R.R

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a wooden well with a wheel and bucket, a figure nearby, and rolling hills in the distance.

Well

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a wrecked cannon in a cleared wooded clearing with tree stumps, captioned about soldiers destroying a rebel

Where the soldiers destroyed rebel battery

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of the paddle steamer Dirigo with masts and paddle wheel, with handwritten notes and small studies.

Wrecker-the Dirigo

Alfred Waud, 1860

Wauds grey mare, 1862

Alfred Waud, 1862

Woman on horseback

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of canvas army tents among pine trees with soldiers standing in a camp, labelled Genl. J. Hooker's headquarters

Gen. J. Hooker's. Tent Hdqts. Army of Potomac

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of mounted soldiers and a wagon fording a river toward a wooded bank, with troops on a distant bridge.

Ely's Ford

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of an explosion at City Point with dark smoke, flying debris, and wrecked wooden buildings along a waterfront.

Explosion at City Point

Alfred Waud, 1864

Sketch of sunrise over a misty valley with rolling hills, rocks and shrubs in the foreground.

From Maryland Heights at sunrise

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of marching soldiers, mounted officers and wagons by a river, with a town burning at night on the far bank.

Fredericksburg, night of the 11th

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil and chalk drawing of mounted cavalry crossing a stream past bare trees and an open field.

Genl. McClellan and Staff accompanied by the 5th Cavalry crossing Bull Run at Blackburns Ford

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers tearing up railroad ties with smoke rising, mounted troops and wagons on a hillside, 1864.

Destruction of Genl. Lee's lines of Communication in Virginia by Genl. Wilson

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and chalk sketch of a burning railroad trestle bridge with smoke, charred trees and small soldiers, 1864.

Fredericksburgh (sic) and Richmond RR Bridge over N. Anna, in flames

Alfred Waud, 1864

Sketch of a wooden railway bridge burning over a river, with smoke rising and soldiers on horseback watching from the bank.

Burning the Rappahannock Railway bridge. Oct. 13th 1863

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of two bearded officers in uniform standing before digging soldiers, earthworks, and a tree in a field.

Genl. Hunt-and Major Duane, chief of Arty. and Chief Engineer

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and white chalk drawing of soldiers on a riverbank firing across water, with a flag and wooded far shore.

Ford near Shepherdstown, on the Potomac. Pickets firing across the river

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of river boats, sailing ships and tents on a floating platform along a wide riverbank.

Fort Powhatan-on the James-below the Pontoon bridge

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of infantry soldiers charging with rifles through a ford toward wooded rifle pits during battle.

Charge of Gen. Ward's troops through Kelly's Ford upon the rifle pits

Alfred Waud, 1863

Wood engraving of passengers dining in an ornate palace hotel railway car, with a waiter carrying a tray.

Interior of a palace hotel car used on the Pacific Railroad - sketched by A. Waud

Alfred Waud, 1869

Pencil sketch of Union soldiers firing through smoke in a leafless forest, with fallen men in the foreground.

Genl. Wadsworth's division in action in the Wilderness, near the spot where the General was killed

Alfred Waud, 1864