Camp, Las Moras C.S.A. : near Fort Clark, Texas, March 1861

Detailed study of Confederate troops and Mexicans opening supply boxes taken from a Union covered wagon, drinking and changing clothes.
Signed lower left: C.J. Iwonski fel. 1861.
Title inscribed in brown ink above image.
Inscribed in pencil upper right: This was the first war sketch recd by Harpers. Inscribed in pencil below title: Following the surrender of Genl. Twiggs.
Inscribed on supply boxes: Q[uarter] M[aster] D[epot].
Former U.S. Troops enroute to occupy forts as Confederate soldiers, according to Harper's.
Published in: Harper's Weekly, 15 June 1861, p. 375, as: Bivouac of Confederate Troops on the Las Moras, Texas with Stolen U.S. Wagons, Etc.-Sketched by a Member of the Corps.
Source unknown.
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file F.