Battle of Bentonville, left of action – Antique Wall Art
![Battle of Bentonville, left of action, [1865 March 19] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2a/2a59e3eede32-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Battle of Bentonville, left of action, preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Battle of Bentonville, left of action
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This pencil sketch on long strip of orange-tan paper shows the left side of the fighting at Bentonville, North Carolina, where Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston attacked Union troops on March 19, 1865. Handwritten notes inside the drawing mark a ravine above the front of the guns and an open field beyond, so the artist was recording the terrain as well as the action. Its earlier catalog number links it to Alfred Waud, a battlefield artist whose quick field sketches were sent north to be engraved for illustrated newspapers. The drawing documents the last major battle of Sherman's Carolinas Campaign, fought as the war was nearing its end.
| Created / published | [1865 March 19] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on orange-tan paper : pencil ; 15.3 x 49.6 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1029) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection." |
| Notes | Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed within image as indicators: Ravine above front of guns; open field. Inscribed above image: 14 x 20". Formerly Waud no. C-102. Gift |
| Subjects | Bentonville, Battle of, Bentonville, N.C., 1865. Artillery (Weaponry)--1860-1870. Soldiers--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--North Carolina--Bentonville |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,272 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-198920 |
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