Transports at Alexandria removing troops

Signed lower right: Alf. R Waud.

Title inscribed lower right.

Inscribed in pencil above image: Washington and the Capitol in the distance 5 miles away; Maryland shore; Fort; Steamer Vanderbilt, Steamer John Brooks.

Inscribed in ink upper left: To go with Norfolk in place of Fredericksburg.

Published in: Harper's Weekly, April 19, 1862, p. 244.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.696)

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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