Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861

Frederic Ray tentatively identifies this as the camp of General Louis Blenker.

Signed lower right: Alf R. Waud.

Title inscribed below image.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.327)

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file D.

Reference print available in Ray, Plate 13 (p. 87)

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013-2014.

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