Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move. Sketched near Falmouth--Jan. 21st – Historic Reproduction
![Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move. Sketched near Falmouth--Jan. 21st, [1863] January 21. — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/935f1f7520c9-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 historic drawing of Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move. Sketched near Falmouth--Jan. 21st brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move. Sketched near Falmouth--Jan. 21st
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Rather than a battle, this sheet shows the Army of the Potomac bogged down near Falmouth, Virginia, during Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's failed late-January 1863 push toward the Rappahannock River, an episode soldiers called the Mud March. Alfred R. Waud, a staff artist for *Harper's Weekly*, signed the drawing and sent field sketches like this one to be engraved, and it ran in the February 14, 1863 issue under a caption describing the fruitless attempt. The pencil and white heightening on tan paper give the scene a muted, wintry tone that suits its subject.
| Created / published | [1863] January 21. |
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| Medium | 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 35.3 x 52.4 cm. (sheet). |
| Notes | Signed lower right: Alf. R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, February 14, 1863, p. 104-5 as Fruitless attempt of the Army of the Potomac to move toward the Rappahannock on 20th January 1863. Gift |
| Subjects | 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.718) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- S. Reference print available in Ray |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,450 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216506 |
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