Skirmish in the Wilderness. Bucktails. 5 Corps point. '64 – Historic Print
![Skirmish in the Wilderness. Bucktails. 5 Corps point. '64, 1864 [May 5 - 7] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0e/0ec826a36019-L.webp)
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Skirmish in the Wilderness. Bucktails. 5 Corps point. '64
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Alfred R. Waud drew this pencil sketch in the field, showing the Bucktails forcing a path through thick brush toward the edge of the woods. The Bucktails, a Pennsylvania rifle unit, fought on Samuel W. Crawford's front in the Wilderness, the tangled second-growth woods of Virginia where Grant and Lee clashed from May 5 to 7, 1864. An inscription on the back says the regiment did good work there but was left behind when Crawford suddenly fell back without notice, leaving it in a bad spot. The dense undergrowth, which kept troops from seeing far, made the Wilderness a hard battlefield for both armies.
| Created / published | 1864 [May 5 - 7] |
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| Medium | 1 drawing on cream paper : pencil ; 11.6 x 14.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed on verso: The Bucktails did some fine work on Crawfords front, but being left behind when Crawford suddenly fell back and not notified of that fact, they had rather a bad time. Sketch shows the line forcing a way through the brush to the edge of the woods. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.633) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Crawford, Samuel Wylie,--1827-1892--Military service. United States.--Army.--Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 42nd (1861-1864) Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Virginia--Wilderness |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,730 × 3,787 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219615 |
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