[Soldiers on horseback crossing a river near a collapsed bridge] – Historic Print
![[Soldiers on horseback crossing a river near a collapsed bridge], [between 1860 and 1865] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e0/e03535845697-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 [Soldiers on horseback crossing a river near a collapsed bridge] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Soldiers on horseback crossing a river near a collapsed bridge]
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Soldiers on horseback splash across a river beside the broken remains of a bridge, a scene of wartime damage that Alfred R. Waud, one of the most prolific battlefield artists of the Civil War, recorded in pencil on a small sheet of tan paper. Waud, born in England, drew for illustrated weeklies such as *Harper's Weekly*, sending sketches like this one to publishers, where engravers turned them into wood engravings for mass readers. The subjects, transportation and destruction, reflect how often bridges were among the first casualties of the fighting.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1865] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil ; 12.5 x 19.7 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: Alf R. Waud. Title devised. Inscribed upper right: A. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.188) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Cavalry--1860-1870. Bridges--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage.United States |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,530 × 3,626 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222329 |
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