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Civil War Sketchbook : Watercolor Paintings
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- A-000270.04
- Civil War Sketchbook — Title Page
- This book is a hybrid sketchbook-scrapbook that contains many wonderfully detailed color and monotone watercolor, pen, and pencil depictions of encampment sites, battle scenes, landscapes, and buildings that were witnessed and unofficially recorded b... View Full Record
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- Camp Burnside — Jamaica, Long Island, Nov. 4th, 1861
- The 8CV was organized with men who had seafaring experience and thus participated in General Burnside's plan to block outside supply lines along parts of the East coast and to destroy targeted train supply lines. The 8CV, Co. A, first trained in the... View Full Record
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- Lighthouse on Chesapeake Bay, 1861
- Shadek's depiction of a Chesapeake Bay lighthouse is indicative of the CV 8th Regiment's journey southward. His book contains several sketches of important places in Maryland where the troops of the CV8 spent time or trained.... View Full Record
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- Railroad Depot, Quarter of the 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers — Perryville Station, Maryland
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- Camp of the 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers — Annapolis, Maryland, December 8th, 1861
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- Evening Amusements — Camp Annapolis, December 24, 1861
- The difficult and demanding days of training and fighting were often punctuated by many hours of waiting or sheer boredom. Soldiers frequently amused themselves with diversions such as games and music.
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- U.S. Gunboat "Chasseur" passing Hatteras Lights, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina — January 12, 1862
- This sketch is the first in Shadek's book to depict a North Carolina location. Once the troops left Annapolis, they had a relatively easy and direct route south on the Chesapeake Bay and down to Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks where they could ente... View Full Record
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- Forts Hatteras and Clark, North Carolina — 1862
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- Lighthouse on Grottan Sound, U.S. Gunboats passing — February 7, 1862
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- Bombardment of the Rebel Fort Bartow, Roanoke Island, North Carolina — February 7, 1862
- This series of sketches depicts the bombardment by Union forces of a dirt fort constructed by the Confederates on Roanoke Island, land strategically bounded by the Croatan and Roanoke Sounds.... View Full Record
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- Storming the Rebel Battery "Carman," Roanoke Island, North Carolina — February 8, 1862
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- Rebel Fort Bartow, Roanoke Island, North Carolina, taken February 8, 1862
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- General Burnside's Headquarters, Roanoke Island, North Carolina — 1862
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- General Burnside's Headquarters, Roanoke Island, North Carolina — 1862
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- Camp of the 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, on Roanoke Island, North Carolina — 1862
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- Hospital on Roanoke Island (north side), North Carolina — 1862
- During the Civil War, hospitals for the sick and wounded were grim places to be avoided. Due to medical practices implemented during this period, many people died of infections rather than their original injuries.... View Full Record
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- Cook's Tent of Company A, 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers — Roanoke Island, North Carolina — 1862
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- Boats on water near Roanoke Island, North Carolina
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- Bivouac of the 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, before the battle — New Bern, North Carolina — March 15, 1862
- This image is the first rendering of a location south of Roanoke Island. Corporal Shadek depicted New Bern, North Carolina, numerous times in his sketchbook. Toward the end of the sketchbook, a "landscape" painting is included with "Newbern on Fire... View Full Record
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- 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, passing through the evacuated Rebel Battery near New Bern, North Carolina — March 13, 1862
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- Battle before New Bern, North Carolina, 8th Connecticut Volunteers charging — March 14, 1864
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- New Bern, North Carolina on fire after the battle — March 14, 1862
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- New Bern, North Carolina — March 18, 1862
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- 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, Bivouac near Sloocombs Creek, North Carolina — March 21, 1862
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- Carolina City, North Carolina (taken March 23, 1862)
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- 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, shanties near Carolina City, North Carolina — 1862
- Union troops used camps once occupied by Confederates in Carolina City (now part of Morehead City) as a base and headquarters.... View Full Record
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- Burning of the Prise Vessel, near Fort Macon — March 23, 1862
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- Claming near Carolina City, North Carolina — March 24, 1862
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- Ruins of the Rebel camp near Morehead City, North Carolina — 1862
- Although records of service indicate that Corporal Shadek served until he was discharged for disability in December of 1862, the sketches do not continue past July of 1862, when he drew a building in Morehead City, NC, the point of the CV8, Company A... View Full Record
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- Bogue Banks Barracks, North Carolina — Arpil 23, 1862
- Bogue Banks lies on the southern tip of Emerald Isle, just south of Morehead City, North Carolina.... View Full Record
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- Morehead City, Beaufort & Fort Macon, North Carolina — 1862
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- Signal Chor on Bogue Banks, North Carolina — 1862
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- Siege Guns Battery — Bogue Banks, North Carolina, 1862
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- Fort Macon, North Carolina — 1862
- Fort Macon was located at the northern tip of Emerald Isle, north of Morehead City,straddling Bogue Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. It was built to protect the deep water port at Beaufort, North Carolina (1826-1834), and fell to Union forces on April... View Full Record
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- Fort Macon, view from parapet — 1862
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- Fort Macon—Interior, North Carolina — April 26, 1862
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- One of the Casemates, Fort Macon, North Carolina — 1862
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- Rail Road Station "Morehead," Night quarters of the 8th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers — May 2, 1862
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- Camp of the 8th Connecticut Volunteers near New Bern, North Carolina — May 5, 1862
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- Quarters of Company A, I, D, C — Morehead City, North Carolina — July 3, 1862
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- Rips Raps Virginia (near Fortress Mourow)
- By the summer of 1862, Corporal Shadek's Regiment headed north into Virginia and eventually took part in the Battle of Antietam.... View Full Record