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In my research I have come across several images from the period which illustrate picket duty. Some are stylized and others appear to be quite accurate in personifying published accounts.
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This is entitled Infantryman On Picket. It is by Edwin Frobes. Found in They Fought For The Union, Francis A. Lord, PhD. Bonanza Books, New York, NY, 1965. PP 264.
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This sketch is also by Forbes and entitled The Truce; Ibid, PP 265. Lord's description reads Federal and Confederate pickets trading coffee and sugar for tobacco. They also swapped newspapers, jackknives, buttons, canteens, and gossip
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Another Forbes (I believe) sketch of a mounted picket. From the Library of Congress.
Forbes was one of many artists who recorded the war as it happened either as an eye-witness or from accounts provided to him.
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Although illustrating a picket in winter, Julian Scott depicted the desolate sentinel (1899) and the caption that goes with it is apt: Solitary Confedrate picket mirrors the hardship of war in winter. Men charged with picket duty stood stints as early-warning attack sentries for units quartered nearby. By 1862 the rigors of army life--ragged clothing, improper diet, filth and disease--plagued troops. "I wish...I was home by my own fireside....A Soliders life...is not what it is cracked up to be," wrote a disenchanted Reb.
Source: The Civil War, Robert Paul Jordan. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.,1969. PP 84-85.
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In this second painting by Julian Scott (1881) Jordan describes the men as Alert to danger, Union pickets guard a road on the perimeter of their camp. Ibid, PP 72-73.
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This final addition is perhaps the best illustration and it was completed by Conrad Wise Chapman in 1863. Thus a wartime image Jordan writes the Empty expression of a Rebel picket reflects the war-weariness of a nation after three years of bloody conflict. [The artist], who served the Confederacy as a private, painted the picket as a self-portrait, perhaps to record his own disillusionment with the war. Ibid, PP 146-147.
Note the arbor/lean-to in the background and the disposition of his mates.
Found other images in your own studies? Please share in this thread. Hope this helps get people in the mindset for the event. Enjoy!
In my research I have come across several images from the period which illustrate picket duty. Some are stylized and others appear to be quite accurate in personifying published accounts.
image.jpeg
This is entitled Infantryman On Picket. It is by Edwin Frobes. Found in They Fought For The Union, Francis A. Lord, PhD. Bonanza Books, New York, NY, 1965. PP 264.
image.jpeg
This sketch is also by Forbes and entitled The Truce; Ibid, PP 265. Lord's description reads Federal and Confederate pickets trading coffee and sugar for tobacco. They also swapped newspapers, jackknives, buttons, canteens, and gossip
image.jpeg
Another Forbes (I believe) sketch of a mounted picket. From the Library of Congress.
Forbes was one of many artists who recorded the war as it happened either as an eye-witness or from accounts provided to him.
image.jpeg
Although illustrating a picket in winter, Julian Scott depicted the desolate sentinel (1899) and the caption that goes with it is apt: Solitary Confedrate picket mirrors the hardship of war in winter. Men charged with picket duty stood stints as early-warning attack sentries for units quartered nearby. By 1862 the rigors of army life--ragged clothing, improper diet, filth and disease--plagued troops. "I wish...I was home by my own fireside....A Soliders life...is not what it is cracked up to be," wrote a disenchanted Reb.
Source: The Civil War, Robert Paul Jordan. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.,1969. PP 84-85.
image.jpeg
In this second painting by Julian Scott (1881) Jordan describes the men as Alert to danger, Union pickets guard a road on the perimeter of their camp. Ibid, PP 72-73.
image.jpeg
This final addition is perhaps the best illustration and it was completed by Conrad Wise Chapman in 1863. Thus a wartime image Jordan writes the Empty expression of a Rebel picket reflects the war-weariness of a nation after three years of bloody conflict. [The artist], who served the Confederacy as a private, painted the picket as a self-portrait, perhaps to record his own disillusionment with the war. Ibid, PP 146-147.
Note the arbor/lean-to in the background and the disposition of his mates.
Found other images in your own studies? Please share in this thread. Hope this helps get people in the mindset for the event. Enjoy!
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