Within the mine. Colonel Pleasants superinting [sic] the arrival of powder

Signed lower right: AR. Waud.

Title inscribed below image.

Inscribed on an attached piece of cream paper: Carrying powder into the mine. The soldiers detailed for this duty carried the powder - a keg in either end of a grain bag thrown across the shoulder. A portion of the c̀overed way' along which they had to pass, was exposed to the enemies fire. At the dangerous points they would watch their oppartunity[sic] and dash over the exposed ground into comparative safety.

Published in: Harpers Weekly, 20 August 1864, p. 528 (cover).

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.447)

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864.

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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