Our Army before Yorktown, Virginia, Harper's Weekly, 1862

A multi-panel wood engraving of Civil War scenes: mounted troops on a road, officers and soldiers near a farmhouse, a steamship on water, tree-lined fields with felled trees, and soldiers with rifles outdoors. Black-and-white linework shows the camp and campaign life in detail.

Artist

Winslow Homer

Date

1862

Medium

wood engraving on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

3000 × 2092 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum