MAKE A MEME View Large Image Battle of the Crater.png Artwork creator Alfred Waud Figure in lower left has oversized shoes 1864-07-30 drawing 1 drawing on light green paper pencil and Chinese white Signed lower right A R Waud Title inscribed below image Inscribed on ...
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Keywords: Battle of the Crater.png Artwork creator Alfred Waud Figure in lower left has oversized shoes 1864-07-30 drawing 1 drawing on light green paper pencil and Chinese white Signed lower right A R Waud Title inscribed below image Inscribed on verso Petersburg Mine Va /July 30 1864/23d U S colored/18th U S Inscribed on an accompanying piece of paper in pencil and black ink The advance to the crater after the explosion of the mine In the middle distance are the mounds of earth thrown up by the explosion beyond upon the high ground cemetery hill the Confederates inner line of works which if they had carried would have given the Union Army Petersburg and Richmond In the foreground troops are seen advancing to and beyond Burnsides outer intrenched line and moving upon the Confederate defences These were ”on the left Bartletts Massachusetts brigade and on the right the Negro troops ”this sketch was made about 8 AM July 30th 1864 / A point in the Rebel works known as Elliots Salient over this part was held by the 18th and 23rd S Carolina infantry and a battery of artillery blown up in the explosion Inscribed upper left By L L B Published in Harper's Weekly 22 Aug 1864 p 548 without the big feet Gift J P Morgan 1919 DLC/PP-1919 R1 2 156 Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ”1864 Reference print available in Ray Plate 84 pp 164 “165 Forms part of Civil War drawing collection LOC-image cph 3g10794 PD-old-100 thumb Alfred Waud Files uploaded by Lilyu Battle of the Crater Pencil drawings
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