Gettysburg – Antique Print
![Gettysburg, [1863 July 1-3] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/58/58d4bd9c5161-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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This rare historic drawing captures Gettysburg in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few pictures on this board show the ground itself as a site of death, and this sheet does so directly. Its inscription identifies the rise as the hill where Brig. Gen. Stephen H. Weed was killed, a spot the soldiers called the "Slaughter Pen," and it marks a nearby ravine from which Confederate troops were driven by the Third Corps. Alfred R. Waud, a battlefield artist for *Harper's Weekly*, drew it in pencil and white paint on olive-tinted paper, a quick field technique suited to recording a scene soon after the fighting of July 1863.
| Created / published | [1863 July 1-3] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on olive paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 21.9 x 34.8 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below image: Hill where Genl. Weed was killed, called by the soldiers the Slaughter Pen./ and ravine from which the rebels were driven by the 3rd Corps. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.219). Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Weed, Stephen Hinsdale--Military service. Zook, Samuel Kosciuzko,--1822-1863--Military service. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Dead persons--1860-1870. Soldiers--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,190 × 753 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216951 |
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