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(CIVIL WAR—ART.) Waud, Alfred R.
The Advance Guard in Virginia
Attacking the Enemies Near Snickersville.
Pencil drawing with white highlights, 9 x
14
1
/
4
inches, signed “AR Waud” in lower right; folds, small red stain in lower right corner,
short closed tear on right edge.
[Snickersville, VA, October 1862]
[1,500/2,500]
A cavalry skirmish in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Virginia, near what is now
known as Bluemont. A Union soldier has grabbed a fleeing Confederate by his jacket and
attempts to shoot him in the head with his revolver, while the Confederate raises his sword in
defense.
WITH
—the complete issue of Harper’s Weekly featuring the engraving of this sketch,
29 November 1862, explaining that this piece “illustrates one of those cavalry skirmishes
which are so often reported in the papers. Both the rebels and ourselves constantly keep flying
squadrons of cavalry scouring the country, and every now and then they meet, and then comes
the tug of war.”
