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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
Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move. Sketched near Falmouth--Jan. 21st, [1863] January 21.. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move. Sketched near Falmouth--Jan. 21st. 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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Signed by Alfred R. Waud and dated January 21, 1863, this drawing shows the Army of the Potomac struggling along muddy roads near Falmouth, Virginia, across the Rappahannock from Fredericksburg. It depicts the so-called Mud March, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's late-January effort to move the army toward the river, which bogged down in rain and deep mud and was abandoned within days. Waud drew the scene in pencil, white heightening and ink wash on tan paper, and Harper's Weekly published it in its February 14, 1863 issue. The picture shows how winter weather, rather than enemy fire, halted the campaign.

Created / published[1863] January 21.
Medium1 drawing on tan paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 35.3 x 52.4 cm. (sheet).
NotesSigned 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
Subjects1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.718) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- S. Reference print available in Ray
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109027

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