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The rebels covered by a ledge of rock repulsing the troops on the right- in the woods beyond the Duncker ch. [sic] Antietam

The rebels covered by a ledge of rock repulsing the troops on the righ...

Signed lower left of image: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically right margin: Genl Sumners attack. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.300) Reference print available in the Civil War Dr... More

Bringing wounded soldiers to the cars after the battle of Seven Pines

Bringing wounded soldiers to the cars after the battle of Seven Pines

Wounded soldiers brought to a train in carts and on stretchers. Tentative sketches of soldiers on verso. Title devised from inscriptions. Inscribed above image: "Battle Field" Fairoak [sic] Station Richmond and... More

[Colonel Burnside's brigade at Bull Run]

[Colonel Burnside's brigade at Bull Run]

Title devised from N.Y. Illustrated News. Published in: New York Illustrated News, August 5, 1861, pp. 216-217, with caption: Colonel Burnside's brigade, First and Second Rhode Island, and Seventy-first New Yor... More

[Cedar Creek, Virginia] - Public domain scenic drawing

[Cedar Creek, Virginia] - Public domain scenic drawing

Signed lower left: AR Waud. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.234) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Man shoveling coal] - Public domain  drawing

[Man shoveling coal] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Part of a sketch on verso, depicting baby sitting on table offering fruit. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.435) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file V. Forms part ... More

Night signalling - Public domain monumental decor drawing

Night signalling - Public domain monumental decor drawing

Title inscribed on verso. "Signal Corps VIII 3" inscribed on verso. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 12, 1864, p. 732. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings File Q. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 191... More

Warrens Brigade overpowered by Longstreets advance

Warrens Brigade overpowered by Longstreets advance

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: The Dureyea [sic] Zouaves lost 300 about half the regiment the McChesneys (National Zouaves) 10 N.Y. about 150 in trying to hold a gap in the line that four time... More

[Single reclining figure with cloth over face]

[Single reclining figure with cloth over face]

Four studies. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: Richmond 1865. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.388) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file. Forms part of: Morgan co... More

Richmond Firemen pushing down the remains of the burnt dwellings Capital Square

Richmond Firemen pushing down the remains of the burnt dwellings Capit...

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.328) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file A. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War d... More

7 dragoons - Public domain  drawing

7 dragoons - Public domain drawing

Rough sketch of four cavalrymen. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed lower left: 1862?. Sketch of a drummer and a soldier on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.370) Forms part of: Morgan collect... More

The battle of Cedar Mountain. Night at the hospitals. Arrival of General McDowell's Corps

The battle of Cedar Mountain. Night at the hospitals. Arrival of Gener...

Drawing shows a farmhouse, used as a hospital during the American Civil War, near a turnpike and the Blue Ridge Mountains, as the Battle of Cedar Mountain rages in the distance. The drawing is numbered 1-7, whi... More

Onondaga - Public domain  drawing

Onondaga - Public domain drawing

Broadside views of three ships. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: white boat / black d[n?]. Faint pencil sketch on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.561) Forms part of: Morgan c... More

The main lobby leading from the old hall of the house of representatives to the new one

The main lobby leading from the old hall of the house of representativ...

Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed within image as indicators: Bronze doors very hard to see detail; Columbus in Middle see Treasury note border of emblems; Shields; Scrolls armour etc; Under part of gallery... More

Cattle Raid. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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 th... More

Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the valley

Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the v...

General Custer, with aides, presenting Confederate flags captured during battle of Cedar Creek. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Confederate flag sketched upper left. Inscribed upper lef... More

Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the valley

Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the v...

General Custer, with aides, presenting Confederate flags captured during battle of Cedar Creek. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Confederate flag sketched upper left. Inscribed upper lef... More

[Lt. Custer wading in the Chickahominy River]

[Lt. Custer wading in the Chickahominy River]

Custer wades across the river to determine the position of the enemy, as requested by Barnard (on horseback). Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.223) Reference print available in Ray, Plat... More

Sheridan's Ride. Battle of Cedar Creek

Sheridan's Ride. Battle of Cedar Creek

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right in different hand: Oct 19-64. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.445) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms part of: Mo... More

Bummers [Foragers] - Public domain document scan of drawing

Bummers [Foragers] - Public domain document scan of drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.255) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, which At  mpted to Run the Blockade, Near Newport News

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, w...

Published engraving based upon DRWG/US - Balling, no. 1 (A size). Attributed to Balling in New York Illustrated News caption. Title printed below image. Initials T.N. engraved lower right of image indicate that... More

[Seven bust portraits]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

[Seven bust portraits]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Title devised. Inscribed as identification: New Orleans Delta; Galveston Texas, Parsons w/Texas; Augusta, Dispatch, Atkinson; Connecticut; Porlchard (?); Cap Parker. Inscribed below images: Sketches of heads on... More

Reconnoisance [sic] by Bufords Cavalry towards the Rapidan river

Reconnoisance [sic] by Bufords Cavalry towards the Rapidan river

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed upper left: Half this sketch missing. Inscribed lower right: Generl [sic.] Bu[ford]. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1863, p. 632-633. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/... More

The arts - decoration for the Library of Congress

The arts - decoration for the Library of Congress

Scaled cartoon for large mural painting showing cherubs and five women representing various arts. Study for tympanum in southwest gallery of the Jefferson Building. "Scale 1 in. to 1 foot." Gift; Allyn Cox.

In Picketts Mill, Ga. May 27-64.

In Picketts Mill, Ga. May 27-64.

Wooded landscape. Title inscried below image. Two bust sketches on verso. Formerly Waud no. B-38. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.803) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Going into bivouac at night / Edwin Forbes.

Going into bivouac at night / Edwin Forbes.

"Going into camp at night. The fields on all sides are covered with troops cooking supper, and column of troops in the road marching on and disappearing over the hill in the distance" on mount. Part of "Life st... More

The old spring house, with guard

The old spring house, with guard

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.104) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Study for central figure in Corrupt legislation]

[Study for central figure in Corrupt legislation]

Study drawing shows the allegorical central figure, nude, holding her scale in the Library of Congress mural Corrupt legislation. The mural was installed in the Jefferson Building in 1896. Gift; American Academ... More

[George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Schoff.

[George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Schoff...

Based on the unfinished Gilbert Stuart portrait. Public domain scan - bust portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shelling the rebel works on the Chickahomy [sic] across the Mechanicsville bridge

Shelling the rebel works on the Chickahomy [sic] across the Mechanicsv...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Shell exploding; Division same as in [ ] Junction; Use this for foreground make figures larger ; shell; June; Sheppard. Inscribed within image: Peach Tree; 10... More

Perry's victory / T. Birch. - Public domain dedication image

Perry's victory / T. Birch. - Public domain dedication image

Marine view showing American fleet, under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry, engaged in battle with the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congr... More

Before Petersburg at sunrise, July 30th 1864

Before Petersburg at sunrise, July 30th 1864

Sig ned lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Spires in Petersburg. The mine. Inscribed on separate sheet of cream paper: Explosion of the mine under the Confederate works at... More

A south view of Crown Point - Public domain scan / drawing

A south view of Crown Point - Public domain scan / drawing

Inscribed: No. 43. Public domain photograph of 18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sketch of officer of infantry. The colonel

Sketch of officer of infantry. The colonel

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.91) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Lookout. Mt. from the west. Captured No 23 1863 by Maj Gen Hooker & the 11 and 12 A[G?]

Lookout. Mt. from the west. Captured No 23 1863 by Maj Gen Hooker & th...

Naive (self-taught) landscape of tree-covered hills, with Lookout Mountain and outline of flag atop it in background. Signed lower left: G.H. Blakeslee T.E. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed below title: A... More

Negroes mounting Cannon in the works for the attack on Ft. Sumter 1861- Morris Island

Negroes mounting Cannon in the works for the attack on Ft. Sumter 1861...

Signed upper left: W. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862

Scene behind the breastworks on Culps Hill, morning of July 3rd 1862

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.289) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A jerilla [sic]./ A deserter - Public domain portrait drawing

A jerilla [sic]./ A deserter - Public domain portrait drawing

Full-length portrait of soldier in tattered clothing. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed above and below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.245) Reference print available in the Civil ... More

[Sketch of a dead horse] - Public domain animals drawing

[Sketch of a dead horse] - Public domain animals drawing

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.468) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file I. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Sketch of a dead horse] - Public domain  drawing

[Sketch of a dead horse] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.468) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file I. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Stripping a rail fence for fires

Stripping a rail fence for fires

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.175) Reference print available in Ray, Plate 38 (p. 116). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Second days action at Hatteras inlet

Second days action at Hatteras inlet

Broadside views of ships bombarding Fort Hatteras. Signed lower right: Alf.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: No top gallant masts up; Susquehannah; Cumberland; [Adnatie]; Minnesota; Wa... More

[Parlor, Abraham Lincoln home, Springfield, Illinois]

[Parlor, Abraham Lincoln home, Springfield, Illinois]

Drawings shows many features of the parlor, with inset giving additional details. Relates to the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., May 3-4,1865. (Source: Mark Johnson, Illinois Historic... More

Winslow Homer - War songs. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Winslow Homer - War songs. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Series of images relating to war songs. Mainly soldiers marching, but also African Americans hauling sacks on their backs. Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," is in center. Title inscribe... More

Old Virginia farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, Virginia

Old Virginia farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, Virginia

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.121) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Norway, the steamer parting the fjord

Norway, the steamer parting the fjord

Drawing shows a sidewheel steamship from behind, as it passes out of a Norwegian fjord. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife. Inscribed upper... More

Camp 120, Eagle Lake, Sierra Nevadas

Camp 120, Eagle Lake, Sierra Nevadas

Drawing shows a camp of covered wagons and tents on the shore of Eagle Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Two men and a woman, lower left, overlook the camp near some grazing cattle. Eagle Lake ... More

5th excelsiors. Book illustration from Library of Congress

5th excelsiors. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Sketch of two soldiers. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.251) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file V. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Rebel fort & line of works near Burgess Mills evacuated by the rebels this morning

Rebel fort & line of works near Burgess Mills evacuated by the rebels ...

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed on verso under title: The 6th Corps flanked them out./ AR.W./ 2n Apr. 65,/ On my way to Petersburgh.[sic]. Inscribed on recto, indicating key Spots: Woods. Pines. Oaks. Pines... More

[Ruins of the Acquia Creek and Fredericksburg R.R. bridge, over Potomac Creek] / EF.

[Ruins of the Acquia Creek and Fredericksburg R.R. bridge, over Potoma...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.12) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A Negro cabin. The old grist mill

A Negro cabin. The old grist mill

Five vignettes on one sheet. Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.304) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Nine camp scenes] - Public domain scan / drawing

[Nine camp scenes] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title devised. Each scene is identified from left to right: The ice cart; city point; the water cart; Takeing [sic] Photographs; view from Dr. Starkes plantation; bringing goods ashore; searching for whiskey; n... More

Burning breastworks and forts at Manassas

Burning breastworks and forts at Manassas

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.7) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The sanctuary - Public domain  drawing

The sanctuary - Public domain drawing

Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.335) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Thunder Bolt Bat[ter]y from Rear

Thunder Bolt Bat[ter]y from Rear

Signed below image: Will Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on verso: This Baty was built in / 61 and is of immence[sic]strength-it was designed to protect the City from any attack by Gun boats coming ... More

[Union soldiers exchanging salutations with the Confederates at Fredericksburg, Virginia]

[Union soldiers exchanging salutations with the Confederates at Freder...

Rear view of soldiers on bridge, one is waving a copy of Harpers. Title devised from Harper's Weekly. Published in: Harper's Weekly, December 13, 1862, p. 792-3. Details of two hands holding swords on verso. In... More

Ripraps. [and] Hampton Roads - Public domain  drawing

Ripraps. [and] Hampton Roads - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Sewells pt. Formerly Waud no. C-125. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1052) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Ripraps. [and] Hampton Roads - Public domain  drawing

Ripraps. [and] Hampton Roads - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Sewells pt. Formerly Waud no. C-125. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1052) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A halt in the line of march - Public domain scenic drawing

A halt in the line of march - Public domain scenic drawing

Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.311) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Perilous position of the U.S. Steam Sloop Seminole, while under a terrific fire from three batteries at Evansport shipping point, Potomac river, Oct. 15, 1861-10 oclock A.M.

Perilous position of the U.S. Steam Sloop Seminole, while under a terr...

Broadside view of a steamship engaged in battle. Signed below title: L. Sands, US Navy. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Sketched by Louis Sands; See Seminole sent by Crane, [T.W.F.?]. Formerly... More

Winona. [Ironclad] - Public domain scan / drawing

Winona. [Ironclad] - Public domain scan / drawing

Broadside view steamship. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of submarine on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.584) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Genl. Hunt--and Major Duane, chief of Arty. and Chief Engineer

Genl. Hunt--and Major Duane, chief of Arty. and Chief Engineer

Title inscribed below image. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file L. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.475) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil... More

[Sketches of interior details]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

[Sketches of interior details]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Title devised. Bust portraits on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-107. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1034) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Three officers talking inside a tent]

[Three officers talking inside a tent]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-62. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.827) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Battle of Dug Gap] - Public domain scenic drawing

[Battle of Dug Gap] - Public domain scenic drawing

Title devised. Published in: Joseph M. Brown's The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia, 1887, p. 24. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.424) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. For... More

LOST MTN - Public domain  drawing

LOST MTN - Public domain drawing

Landscape with two horsemen. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed under fragmentary sketch on verso: Snowball battle [Dalton]. Formerly Waud no. B-77. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.841) Forms part... More

Genl. Haupts bridge over Potomac Creek--Virginia, destroyed by the Rebels

Genl. Haupts bridge over Potomac Creek--Virginia, destroyed by the Reb...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud [signature crossed out in ink]. Title inscribed in pencil and black ink below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 29, 1863, p. 557. Destroyed after the evacuation of Falmo... More

Changing base round to the James river on the Pamunkey. Rebel fortification

Changing base round to the James river on the Pamunkey. Rebel fortific...

Steamship ferrying wagons on river. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: Put in more boats if you like. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.580) Forms part of: Mo... More

A distant battle - Public domain scan / drawing

A distant battle - Public domain scan / drawing

Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.319) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Scene of the explosion Saturday July 30th

Scene of the explosion Saturday July 30th

Fig ure in lower left has oversized shoes. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Petersburg Mine, Va./July 30, 1864/23d U.S. colored/18th U.S. Inscribed on an accompany... More

In front of Warren, Grant and Meade in foreground

In front of Warren, Grant and Meade in foreground

Rough sketch: officers on horseback from behind, looking toward battlefield landscape. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below image: Lacy house. Inscribed within image on right: Signal Flag; green and red ... More

1861 Birneys Quartermaster - Public domain portrait drawing

1861 Birneys Quartermaster - Public domain portrait drawing

Title inscribed below image. Pencil sketch of tents and soldiers on verso. Possibly refers to David Birney. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.252) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings fil... More

View of Charleston S.C. from Fort Wagner, Morris Isla

View of Charleston S.C. from Fort Wagner, Morris Isla

Flag view across harbor, toward city and waterfront. Confederate flags flying over docks, and fortress at right. Title inscribed below image. Transfer, Map Division.

[Bloody fight at Occoquan, Virginia]

[Bloody fight at Occoquan, Virginia]

Union soldiers firing into a house occupied by Confederate soldiers. Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title devised from Harpers Weekly. Published in: Harper's Weekly, February 15, 1862, p. 108. Reference print ... More

North Platte - Public domain scenic drawing

North Platte - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two covered wagons being ferried across the Platte River in central Wyoming. A man stands on the far bank of the river, with a hook in one hand. In the distance, people have set up camp in three c... More

[Sketch of a cannoneer and a cannon]

[Sketch of a cannoneer and a cannon]

Title devised. Sketch of a plant on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.469) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file T. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Fight at Mechanicsville [changed to] Beaver Creek between McCalls division and the rebels under Jackson

Fight at Mechanicsville [changed to] Beaver Creek between McCalls divi...

Title inscribed above image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, July 26, 1862, p. 470 as "The Army of the Potomac-The Battle of Beaver Creek, June 26, 1862. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.694) Reference ... More

Bringing the wounded into Fredericksburg in the afternoon--of Saturday

Bringing the wounded into Fredericksburg in the afternoon--of Saturday

Four soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher, while a second wounded soldier walks in foreground. Fredericksburg, and more soldiers in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed within image ... More

Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of the Potomac

Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of the Potomac

Confederate (on right) coming forward to surrender arms to the Union troops (on left). Title inscribed above image. Inscribed next to title: as described to me by Genl. Chamberlain, who recd the surrende[r]. My... More

[Soldier with blanket wrapped around shoulders]

[Soldier with blanket wrapped around shoulders]

Title devised. Rough sketch of figure on verso. Formerly Waud no. B-127. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.891) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Artillery men] - Public domain  drawing

[Artillery men] - Public domain drawing

Rough sketch of soldiers and cannon. Title devised. Inscribed above image: Many both sides. No 1 & 2 & gunner do not leave the gun. Rough sketch of two soldiers on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1... More

Dowdalls Tavern Howards Hd.-Qtrs during American Civil War

Dowdalls Tavern Howards Hd.-Qtrs during American Civil War

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed below image: position of the Right of the line of battle. May 2nd 1863. 2 miles from Chancellors previous to the Germans running away. Publish... More

Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance

Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance

View across the Potomac toward the arsenal, ships at anchor. Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: the arsenal stands on a point running out into the river at the junc... More

Battle of Darby Town Rd. Gen'l Butler & his staff

Battle of Darby Town Rd. Gen'l Butler & his staff

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed above image: 1st Connecticut Battery Capt. Clinton. Our skirmish firing at the rebels in the woods. The Gerhadt House. Inscribed on verso: View of the action on Thursday 27th... More

[State House, Columbia, South Carolina]

[State House, Columbia, South Carolina]

Rough sketch of state house framed by palmetto trees. Possibly William Waud or Theodore Davis. Formerly Waud no. B-116. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.880) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil ... More

Colonel Butterfields headquarters, Camp Anderson D[C]

Colonel Butterfields headquarters, Camp Anderson D[C]

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed on verso: long table in middle covered with black cloth - flowers in tumblers papers books, E[t]c. wooden settees all round apartment Reg flags in middle bedroom on left offi... More

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone - Public domain scenic drawing

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone - Public domain scenic drawing

Guard in canvas-covered trench in foreground, fort in background. Title inscribed below image. Rough sketch of trench or breastworks on verso. See also Waud, No. 120. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.2... More

Bridge on the Appotomax [sic]--Train of Cars and workshops burned by the rebels on evacuating Petersburg

Bridge on the Appotomax [sic]--Train of Cars and workshops burned by t...

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: South side of R.R. workshop. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.450) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file... More

Destruction of Housatonic by a rebel torpedo. Feb. of 17 1864. Charleston

Destruction of Housatonic by a rebel torpedo. Feb. of 17 1864. Charles...

Title inscribed below image. Attributed to William Waud. Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud no. 36 (A size). Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.525) Reference prin... More

Marriage at the camp of the 7th N.J.V. Army of the Potomac, Virginia

Marriage at the camp of the 7th N.J.V. Army of the Potomac, Virginia

Signed lower right: A.R.Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published with descriptive text in: Harper's Weekly, April 4, 1863, p. 216. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.196) Reference print available in... More

Explosion at City Point - Public domain scan / drawing

Explosion at City Point - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed lower right: A R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 27, 1864, p. 545. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.361) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawi... More

Capture of Petersburg - Public domain  drawing

Capture of Petersburg - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.617) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Capture of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

Capture of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.617) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Sheridans ride. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Sheridans ride. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Title inscribed below image. Rough sketch of rabbits hopping over and around a log on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.267) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms... More

Charles Willson Peale - JRS - Public domain portrait drawing

Charles Willson Peale - JRS - Public domain portrait drawing

Bust silhouette portrait shows John Rhea Smith (fl. 1785-1809), son of continental congressman Jonathan Bayard Smith (1742-1812) and brother of Samuel Harrison Smith (1772-1845), facing left. (DLC/PP-44431).

Napoleonic era battle scene showing soldiers fighting at close-quarters, using rifles as clubs and with fixed bayonets; two men at center struggle over military standard

Napoleonic era battle scene showing soldiers fighting at close-quarter...

Inscribed in pencil on verso: Found in Hopkinson silhouette book. (DLC/PP-2000:095) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Libr... More

[View of Charleston, South Carolina, perhaps looking southwest, showing ships, sailboats, and five men in a  rowboat]

[View of Charleston, South Carolina, perhaps looking southwest, showin...

Preliminary sketches of human figures on verso. Includes a remarque at lower left center of sheet showing the figure of a man in a rowboat. Watermark: AMIES. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 92. (DLC/PP-... More

[Study for bank-note vignette: three youths]

[Study for bank-note vignette: three youths]

Purchase; John Carbonell; 1980, (DLC/PP-1981:026.5). Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Study for bank-note vignette: Agriculture, Commerce/Navigation, and Industry as little boys]

[Study for bank-note vignette: Agriculture, Commerce/Navigation, and I...

Purchase, 1980, (DLC/PP-1981:026.6). Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Study for bank-note vignette: Finance or Security]

[Study for bank-note vignette: Finance or Security]

Purchase; John Carbonell; 1980, (DLC/PP-1981:026.2). Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cows grazing in lowlands near stream, houses in the background, on the upper elevations of the banks of the stream

Cows grazing in lowlands near stream, houses in the background, on the...

Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (L... More

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