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Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil War for his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes. [1]
After the beginning of the American Civil War, Davis was hired by Harpers Weekly in 1861 as a special artist to sketch the war events. [1]Before the actual fighting erupted, he managed to visit the South pretending working for The Illustrated London News, with William Howard Russell, a British correspondent, and made sketches of life in Charleston, Savannah, Montgomery, Pensacola, and New ...
Illustration of John, a Virginia blacksmith, from a later edition of Hospital Sketches. Hospital Sketches (1863) is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown.
The gunboat USS Monticello in service during the American Civil War. Prior to the war she was a merchant steamship. Prior to the war she was a merchant steamship. Painting of Gun Boats Blockade Mobile Bay, Alabama, Our Flag is There, by Alfred Rudolph Waud (1865)
He made a number of his war sketches into watercolors, leaving a legacy of close to 1000 watercolors, drawings, sketches, maps, and diagrams. [6] Sneden contributed some of them to the Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, [7] a series of articles published between 1884 and 1887 in The Century Magazine and then reissued as a four-volume set of ...
American Civil War portal; List of American Civil War generals (Union) John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846, Ballantine Books, New York, 1994. Water Color and Drawings by Brevet Maj. Gen. Truman Seymour, Exhibition Catalog, United States Military Academy, Kent Ahrens, 1974. The Drawings and Watercolors by Truman Seymour, organized by the Everhart ...
Gardner's Photographic Gallery of the War at 7th and D in Washington, D.C. (Boyd's Washington Directory, 1864 edition, page 15) Title page of Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (1866), design by Alfred R. Waud. In 1866, Gardner published a two-volume work, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Each volume ...
A sketch of Fort Runyon, as published in Harper's Weekly in November 1861. The sketch is an interior view of one of the fort's bastions. Following the Union defeat at Bull Run, panicked efforts were made to strengthen the forts built by Barnard in order to defend Washington from what was perceived as an imminent Confederate attack. [22]