Title: Camp, Las Moras C.S.A. : near Fort Clark, Texas, March 1861
Creator(s): Iwonski, Carl G. von, 1830-1922, artist
Date Created/Published: 1861 March.
Medium: 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and brown ink wash ; 24.8 x 35.2 cm. (sheet).
Summary: Detailed study of Confederate troops and Mexicans opening supply boxes taken from a Union covered wagon, drinking and changing clothes.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-22783 (digital file from original item) LC-USZ62-1062 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: DRWG/US – Iwonski, no. 1 (A size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
…..Signed lower left: C.J. Iwonski fel. 1861.
…..Title inscribed in brown ink above image.
…..Inscribed in pencil upper right: This was the first war sketch recd by Harpers. Inscribed in pencil below title: Following the surrender of Genl. Twiggs.
…..Inscribed on supply boxes: Q[uarter] M[aster] D[epot].
…..Former U.S. Troops enroute to occupy forts as Confederate soldiers, according to Harper’s.
…..Published in: Harper’s Weekly, 15 June 1861, p. 375, as: Bivouac of Confederate Troops on the Las Moras, Texas with Stolen U.S. Wagons, Etc.-Sketched by a Member of the Corps.
…..Source unknown.
…..Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file F.
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Mike’s notes:
Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
– fade correction,
– color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
– selected spot and/or scratch removal
– cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject