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Spotsylvania, Va--May 8-13-64 - Public domain document scan of drawing

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Spotsylvania, Va--May 8-13-64 - Public domain document scan of drawing

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Three officers stand in foreground while soldiers sleep against breastworks.
Title inscribed upper left.
Inscribed lower left: Genl Webb on the Brock road 10 P.M. May 7th.
Inscribed on verso: This sketch made while Genl Webb was on the extreme left momentarily expecting the order to move on Spotsylvania Ct. ho./ The men lay along the log works muskets against them- canteens and haver-sacks hanging -etc- very dark except for the light of a fire.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.285)
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file S.
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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01/01/1864
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Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
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