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Ponton [sic] Bridge on the Appomattox below Petersburg--Point of Rocks--Butlers headquarters
Summary
Signed lower right: AR Waud.
Title inscribed lower left.
Published in: Harper's Weekly, July 23, 1864, p. 472 The drawing was erroneously credited to William Waud when it appeared in Harper's.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.508)
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P.
Reference print available in Ray, Plate 75 (p. 154)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Tags
Date
01/01/1864
Contributors
Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
