File:Inspection of the 2nd Pennsylvania Artillery by Gen Ames LCCN2004661337.jpg

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English: Title: Inspection of the 2nd Pennsylvania Artillery by Gen Ames Abstract/medium: 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 23.4 x 34.9 cm (sheet)
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Author Waud, William, -1878, artist
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Drawings (Documentary) collection in the Library of Congress
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  • Title inscribed on verso.
  • Inscribed below title on verso: Sketched from the Head Quarters of the 18th Corps. This Regiment is in the 18th Corps and is one of the largest in the service, numbering when it left Washington over three thousand strong. Colonel A.A. Gibson, Major in the 3rd U.S. Artillery commands the regt.
  • Dated from historical sources. "[a]fter inspection, dress parade was had, when a representative of Harper's Weekly made a sketch of the regiment which was published in the paper." (Source: History of the Second Pennsylvania ..., by George W. Ward, 1904 rev. ed., p. 86). This sketch corresponds to an engraving published in Harper's Weekly, Aug. 13, 1864.
  • Illustration published as: "Army of the Potomac : Inspection of the Second Pennsylvania, Colonel Gibson" in Harper's Weekly, v. 8, no. 398 (1864 August 13), p. 516.
  • Formerly filed under: DRWG/US - Chapin, no. 7 (A size).
  • Source unknown.
  • Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 13, 1864, p. 516, with credit "Sketched by William Waud."
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drawings (documentary) · civil war · prints and photographs division
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united states · army · pennsylvania heavy artillery regiment, 2nd · petersburg (va.) · history · siege · gibson, augustus a. · military service · ames, adelbert · civil war · military facilities · military personnel · military training · soldiers · union · military parades & ceremonies · virginia · petersburg · xviii corps · drawings · american
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petersburg
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Virginia--Petersburg

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