Camp,Las Moras,C.S.A.,Confederate States Army,Fort Clark,Texas,Civil War,Iwonski
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.
Summary: Detailed study of Confederate troops and Mexicans opening supply boxes taken from a Union covered wagon, drinking and changing clothes.
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.
Subjects:
Twiggs, David Emanuel--Military service.
Carts & wagons--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--1860-1870.
Eating & drinking--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Mexicans.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies.
United States--Texas--Camp Las Moras
United States--Texas--Fort Clark
Drawings--American--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2004661291/
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