File:Petersburg crater sketch LOC.jpg

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Charcoal sketch depicting Col. Pleasants supervising the mining at Petersburg in preparation for the Battle of the Crater. Title inscribed below image. Note: Inscribed on an attached piece of cream paper: Carrying powder into the mine. The soldiers detailed for this duty carried the power--a keg in either end of a grain bag thrown across the shoulder. A portion of the covered way' along which they had to pass, was exposed to the enemies fire. At the dangerous points they would watch their oppartunity[sic] and dash over the exposed ground into comparative safety. Published in: Harpers Weekly, 20 August 1864, p. 528 (cover). Info from LOC: TITLE: Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting [sic] the arrival of powder CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 447 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USC4-12564 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-14653 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [] CREATOR: Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist. NOTES: Signed lower right: AR. Waud.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.447) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- 1864.

Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.
Date 1864, ca. July 29-30
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3a16915.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Author
Alfred Waud  (1828–1891)  wikidata:Q2226717
 
Alfred Waud
Alternative names
Alfred Rudolph Waud
Description American artist, illustrator and photographer
Date of birth/death 2 October 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Marietta
Work period American Civil War
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United States of America (1850) Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q2226717
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(Reusing this file)		 No known restrictions on publication.
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current20:34, 13 May 2010Thumbnail for version as of 20:34, 13 May 2010598 × 554 (96 KB)Beyond My KenCrop out white border
17:46, 12 December 2005Thumbnail for version as of 17:46, 12 December 2005640 × 575 (82 KB)BkwillwmCategory:American Civil War Charcoal sketch depicting Col. Pleasants supervising the mining at Petersburg in preparation for the Battle of the Crater Info from LOC: TITLE: Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting [sic] the arrival of powder CA
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