<p>Charcoal sketch depicting Col. Pleasants supervising the mining at Petersburg in preparation for the Battle of the Crater. Title inscribed below image.
Note: Inscribed on an attached piece of cream paper: Carrying powder into the mine. The soldiers detailed for this duty carried the power--a keg in either end of a grain bag thrown across the shoulder. A portion of the covered 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).
Info from LOC:
TITLE:  Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting [sic] the arrival of powder
CALL NUMBER:  DRWG/US - Waud, no. 447 (A size) [P&amp;P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USC4-12564 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-14653 (b&amp;w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
CREATED/PUBLISHED:  []
CREATOR: Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist.
NOTES:
Signed lower right: AR. Waud.
</p><p>Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.447)
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- 1864.
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Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alfred_Waud" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alfred Waud"><span title="American artist and illustrator (1828-1891)">Alfred Waud</span></a>
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1864, ca. July 29-30
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