Skirmish between the Brooklyn 14th and 300 Rebel Cavalry [sic]
Summary
Drawing shows a scene that apparently didn't happen. The Brooklyn 14th did not fight in areas where there was Confederate cavalry. (Source: Antietam, by the editors of Time-Life Books, 1996, p. 69)
Inscribed on verso: Battle of Sharpsburg. IV 6.
14th Brooklyn also known as 84th New York Infantry Regiment.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP_1919:R1.2.0182).
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1862.
Reference print available in Ray, Plate 33 (p. 111).
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
Tags
Date
01/01/1862
Contributors
Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Source
Library of Congress
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