File:Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting (sic) the arrival of powder LCCN2004660855.jpg

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English: Title: Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting [sic] the arrival of powder Abstract/medium: 1 drawing on olive paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 13.8 x 15.1 cm. (sheet).
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Author Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
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Drawings (Documentary) collection in the Library of Congress
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  • Signed lower right: AR. Waud.
  • Title inscribed below image.
  • Inscribed on an attached piece of cream paper: Carrying powder into the mine. The soldiers detailed for this duty carried the powder - a keg in either end of a grain bag thrown across the shoulder. A portion of the c̀overed way' along which they had to pass, was exposed to the enemies fire. At the dangerous points they would watch their oppartunity[sic] and dash over the exposed ground into comparative safety.
  • Published in: Harpers Weekly, 20 August 1864, p. 528 (cover).
  • Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.447)
  • Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864.
  • Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
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drawings (documentary) · civil war · prints and photographs division
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pleasants, henry · military service · united states · army · pennsylvania infantry regiment, 48th · petersburg crater, battle of, va. · explosives · military officers · union · mines (weapons) · soldiers · history · civil war · campaigns & battles · equipment & supplies · virginia · petersburg · drawings · american
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petersburg
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United States
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Drawings--American--1860-1870

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