Cattle Raid. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Signed lower left: A.R. Waud.
Title inscribed lower left.
Inscribed on a separate sheet of cream paper: Confederate cattle raid Sept. 16th 1864. Genl. Wade Hampden [sic] suddenly appeared at Coggins point in the rear of the army, on the James river, and carried off the entire beef supply, about 2500 head of cattle. The rebel soldiers were much inclined to joke with the pickets on the loss of their meat rations; the Union men, on the other hand, thanked them heartily for removing the tough remnants of herds that had been driven behind the army all summer and which were at once replaced by a fresh stock much fitter for the table.
Published with description in: Harper's Weekly, October 8, 1864.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.721)
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864.
Reference print available in Ray, Plate 85 (p. 166-167)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.