Bringing wounded soldiers to the cars after the battle of Seven Pines...

CALL NUMBER:DRWG/US - Lumley, no. 16 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-5243 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-83035 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Wounded soldiers brought to a train in carts and on stretchers. Tentative sketches of soldiers on verso.

MEDIUM:1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 21.6 x 35.2 cm. (sheet).

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1862 June 3.

CREATOR:

Lumley, Arthur, ca. 1837-1912, artist.

NOTES:

Title devised from inscriptions.

Inscribed above image: "Battle Field" Fairoak [sic] Station Richmond and York R.R. Tuesday afternoon June 3, 1862.

Inscribed on recto: Bringing the wounded soldiers to the cars; Battles [?] along these woods; Branches attached to the cars for a shade from a burning sun; horse with two wounded soldiers; one side of the horse ambulance; after battle of Seven Pines.

Train engine labelled: Exetor.

Inscribed in ink upper left: 4 page.

Inscribed on verso: The R.R. 3 or 4 ft. high wars used [for] rifle pits by Abercrombies men. Inscribed lower center: After the Battle of Seven Pines/Putting the Wounded on cars - 1862 - June 3rd.

Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud, no. 190 (A size).

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.16)

Published in: New York Illustrated News, 28 June 1862, p. 116, as: Battle Field at fair Oaks--bringing the Wounded to the cars of the Richmond and York Railroad.

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- U.

Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.

SUBJECTS:

Abercrombie, John Joseph--Military service.
Richmond and York River Railroad--1860-1870.
Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862.
Railroads--1860-1870.
Carts & wagons--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical aspects.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.
United States--Virginia--Fair Oaks and Seven Pines

FORMAT:

Drawings American 1860-1870.

PART OF:Civil War drawing collection

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(color film copy transparency) cph 3g05243
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b29666

CARD #:2004661345

Pop Art Machine Code: cph-3g00000-3g05000-3g05200-3g05243