Rebel fortification near Wynns Mill – Vintage Wall Art
![Rebel fortification near Wynns Mill, [1862 April] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a3/a32dc10fb6b5-L.webp)
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Rebel fortification near Wynns Mill
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A long, narrow sheet of brown paper, only about 8 by 51 centimeters, shows a Confederate stockade of sharpened stakes and a covered way at Wynns Mill, outside Yorktown, Virginia. Alfred R. Waud, a staff artist who sent sketches from the field for Harper's Weekly, drew it in April 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign, when Union forces under McClellan were advancing up the peninsula toward Yorktown. The Confederate line along the Warwick River, where Wynns Mill stood, was among the defenses the Union army had to probe and breach. The drawing appeared in the magazine's May 10, 1862 issue, so readers saw the rebel works within weeks of the sketch.
| Created / published | [1862 April] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 8.4 x 51.0 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: Alfred R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Stockade of pointed stakes; Rebel Camp Covered way. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1862, pp. 296-7. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.697) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Military camps--Confederate--1860-1870. Forts & fortifications--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities--Confederate.United States--Virginia--Wynn's MillUnited States--Virginia--Yorktown |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,444 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219236 |
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