Trench Warfare,Petersburg,Virginia,American Civil War,Alfred Rudolph Waud

Title: Bivouaced in the rifle pits 5th Corps
Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Date Created/Published: [1864 July]
Notes:
Signed lower right: ARW.
Title inscribed below image.
Inscribed on a separate sheet of cream paper: Bivouac of the 5th corps in the rifle pits. The men in the trenches were not only exposed to shot & shell but had scant protection from the elements. They stretched their shelter tents across the pit, formed by the outer work and a second embankment in the rear; or they built bough houses over the space. and there they cooked and ate, and slept and fought. In front of the ditch a strong abbatis and beyond a line of pickets in separate pits & shelters.
Published in: Harper's Weekly, 6 August 1864, p. 504-505.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.405)
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864.
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Subjects:
United States.--Army.--Corps, 5th (1862-1865)
Military cookery--1860-1870.
Military camps--1860-1870.
Forts & fortifications--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Trench warfare.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.
Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.
United States--Virginia--Petersburg
Drawings--American--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2004660819/
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