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(CIVIL WAR—ART.) Chapin, Loring Dudley; after Alfred Waud.
Fighting in
the Woods: Kearney’s Division Repulsing the Enemy, Monday, 30 June 1862.
Pencil drawing, 7 x 9
1
/
4
inches, captioned on verso; minor soiling.
[Glendale, VA, circa July 1862]
[500/750]
Depicts a skirmish in the woods during the Battle of Glendale, part of McClellan’s failed
offensive on Richmond. In the article which accompanied the published engraving, Waud wrote
“A majority of the battles so far have been of this description, usually termed bushwhacking—
very deadly, but hardly affording a chance for a display of tactics. For the rest, the picture
describes itself, and gives a good idea of what our soldiers have to stand up to in the Virginia
swamps and woods.” Provenance: Collected by Lieutenant General Milton Medenbach (1907-
2007), and purchased by the consignor at his estate sale in 2007. See also lots 73-76, 161,
and 239, which share this provenance.
WITH
—-the page of Harper’s Weekly featuring the
engraving of this sketch, 9 August 1862.
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(CIVIL WAR—ART.) [Simplot, Alexander?]
Battle of Corinth.
Pencil drawing,
13
1
/
2
x 21 inches; vertical fold, small red stain on lower edge, several short closed tears,
lacking a bit of the lower right corner.
Corinth, MS, 4 October 1862
[800/1,200]
This drawing was engraved for Harper’s Weekly, where its caption puts it in context of the
battle’s key moment. A single three-cannon Union battery led by Lieutenant Henry Robinet
had been inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Confederates. Here the Confederates have
stormed the battery and are attempting to take it in hand-to-hand combat.
WITH
—the two-
page folding Harper’s Weekly engraving, 1 November 1862, which provides the artist’s
attribution.
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