Museum accessions
January 15, 2009 – March 15, 2009
Edwin Forbes Collection consisting of 156 pen and ink drawings and art work by the Civil War artist Edwin Forbes. Gift of the William R. Berkley Family.
1. Artillery Piece Being Transported to the Front on a Carriage Drawn by Six Horses, c. 1862–1889
2. Up in a Balloon, Boys, c. 1862–89
3. Coming into the Lines, c. 1889
4. Hasty [a] Supper, c. 1889
5. Putin’ de Chimley Out, c. 1889
6. Rear of the Column, c. 1889
7. Reliable [the] Contraband, c. 1889
8. Sanctuary [the], c. 1889
9. Smoking Hot, c. 1889
10. Army Bread, c. 1889
11. Army [the] Butcher, c. 1863–89
12. Borrowing a Wash Tub, c. 1889
13. Chief [the] Cook. [with:] A Warm Breakfast. Winter [with:] An Evening Meal. Summer Camp, c. 1862–89
14. Chuck on Some Logs, Pete!, c. 1889
15. Dinner Call, c. 1862–89
16. Double-Shuffle [the], c. 1889
17. Drumming out of Camp, c. 1863–89
18. Fall in for Soup, c. 1889
19. Feeding the Mules, c. 1862–89
20. Grand [the] Review, c. 1889
21. Home Again, c. 1862–89
22. Making a Cremona, c. 1862–89
23. Making Preparations for a Feast, c. 1862–89
24. Military [a] Execution, c. 1863–89
25. Morning [a] Lesson, c. 1862–89
26. Present [a] for the Colonel, c. 1862–89
27. Punishment [the] fits the Crime, c. 1862–89
28. Dishonoured Graves, c. 1863–89
29. Soldier’s [the] Return, c. 1889
30. Sutler [the], c. 1889
31. Sutler’s [the] Tent, c. 1862–89
32. Wagoners [the] Shanty, c. 1889
33. Washing Day in Camp, c. 1862–89
34. Winter Huts Commissary Sergts. Head Quarters, c. 1889
35. Writing Home, c. 1862–89
36. Advance [the] Guard, c. 1889
37. Advance of Cav[alry] Corps, c. 1889
38. Awaiting the Groom, c. 1889
39. Cavalry [the] Camp, c. 1862–89
40. Cavalrymen Watering Horses at a Field Location, c. 1862–89
41. Cavalry [a] Raid, c. 1862–89
42. Coming out of the Fight, c. 1863–89
43. Drill & Parades, c. 1889
44. Feeding Horses & Mules, c. 1889
45. Feeding Horses and Mules, a Halt by the Roadside, c. 1862–89
46. Material Aid, c. 1889
47. Played Out, c. 1889
48. Reserve [the] Line, c. 1889
49. Through the Ice, c. 1862–89
50. Used Up, c. 1862–89
51. About Ready, c. 1889
52. Behind the Breastworks. Awaiting the Attack, c. 1862–89
53. Building Breastworks, c. 1889
54. Cavalry Foragers, c. 1862–89
55. Defeated [a] Army. The Retreat, c. 1862–89
56. Dispatch [a] Bearer, c. 1862–89
57. Distant [the] Battle, c. 1889
58. Drawing their Fire, c. 1863–89
59. Family of Four Observes a Battle, c. 1862–89
60. Friend [a] in Need, c. 1889
61. Hard Times, c. 1889
62. Infantry in the Attack, c. 1862–89
63. Last [the] Act of Friendship, c. 1863–89
64. Lazy [a] Day, c. 1862–89
65. Locating the Enemy's Lines, c. 1889
66. News at the Front, c. 1889
67. Night [a] Battle, c. 1889
68. Off for the Front, c. 1863–89
69. On a Stretcher, c. 1889
70. Out of the Fight, c. 1862–89
71. Rallying the Line, c. 1889
72. Rallying the Line, c. 1862–89
73. Running the Gauntlet, c. 1862–89
74. Running the Gauntlet, c. 1889
75. Sounding the Charge, c. 1862–89
76. Supporting a Battery, c. 1889
77. Too Hot. [with:] The Old Pack Mule. [with:] Water for the Mess. [with:] Done to a Turn.
[with:] Not Much Left, c. 1862–89
78. Under Cover, c. 1862–89
79. Used Up, c. 1862–89
80. Waiting, c. 1862–89
81. [Wait]ing for Something to Turn Up, c. 1889
82. After Canned Goods, c. 1862–89
83. Attacked by Bushwhackers, c. 1863–89
84. Confederate Charge, c. 1889
85. Dead [a] Shot, c. 1862–89
86. I Surrender!, c. 1889
87. Night [a] Battle, c. 1862–89
88. Building Forts, Obstructions &c, c. 1862–89
89. Military Rail Road, c. 1889
90. Pontoon [the] Trains, c. 1862–89
91. Throwing Up Breastworks, c. 1862–89
92. Army [the] Herd, c. 1889
93. Army Milkers, c. 1862–89
94. Bivouac, c. 1889
95. Bummers, c. 1864–89
96. Bummers. [with:] Sweets to the Sweet. [with:] Chicken for Dinner.
[with:] Forage Liberally on the Country, c. 1864–89
97. By the Brookside, c. 1862–89
98. Christmas Dinner, c. 1889
99. Cold Comfort, c. 1862–89
100. Helping [a] Hand, c. 1862–89
101. Making Abatis &c. A Hard Road to Travel, c. 1889
102. Monuments to Departed Life, c. 1862–89
103. Mud Marches, c. 1889
104. Punishments, c. 1889
105. Race for the Camp, c. 1889
106. Rescue [the], c. 1862–89
107. Road [the] To Camp, c. 1862–89
108. Roadside [a] Argument, c. 1862–89
109. Something Good, c. 1862–89
110. Specimen [a] Pair, c. 1889
111. Wagon [the] Trains, c. 1889
112. Wayside [the] Spring, c. 1889
113. Wintry [a] March, c. 1889
114. Wintry [the] March, c. 1863–89
115. Grand [a] Review by Presdt. Lincoln, A Sketch, c. 1863–89
116. Return from the Review, c. 1863–89
117. All Quiet on the Picket Line, c. 1863–89
118. Deserted Picket Hut, c. 1889
119. Forsaken, c. 1863–89
120. Outer [the] Picket Line, c. 1889
121. Packing Up, c. 1889
122. Rainy Day on Picket, c. 1889
123. Traffic Between the Lines – Flag of Truce, c. 1889
124. Pickett's Charge, c. 1863–89
125. Prisoners from the Front, c. 1863–89
126. Battery [the] Guard, c. 1889
127. Rammer [the], c. 1889
128. Bugler [the], c. 1889
129. Orderly [an], Sketch from Life, c. 1862–89
130. On the Look Out, c. 1889
131. Kindling Enthusiasm, c. 1889
132. With the Moving Column, c. 1862–89
133. Deserter [the], c. 1889
134. Drummer [the] Boy, c. 1889
135. Army [the] Ax-Man, c. 1889
136. Rail [a] Road Builder, c. 1889
137. Hungry [the] Soldier, c. 1889
138. Chatting by the Way, c. 1889
139. Heavy [a] Load, c. 1889
140. [Infantryman Sleeping with his back to a Tree, Pack Roll on the Ground,
and his Rifle Resting against the Tree], c. 1889
141. Making Ready, c. 1889
142. Marching in the Rain, c. 1889
143. Night March, c. 1889
144. Old [an] Campaigner, c. 1889
145. Old [an] Campaigner, c. 1862–89
146. Newspaper Correspondent (Taking Notes), c. 1889
147. Group of Signal Stations, c. 1864–89
148. Signal Corps, c. 1889
149. Waiting for the Signal, c. 1864–89
150. Flag of the Brave and the Free, c. 1865–89
151. Officers & Non. Com. Penn. Zouaves, Camp Pardee Va. April 17th 1862. A Sketch from Life, c. 1862–89
152. Friends in Need, c. 1862–89
153. Beef on the Hoof, c. 1889
154. Going to Provost Head-Quarters, Under Guard, c. 1862–89
155. Scouting [a] Party, c. 1889
156. Double Quick March, c. 1862–89
Photographic print of Randolph Scott by George Hurrell. Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.
Coverlet made in Augusta County by Nora Carlisle Swortzel or her mother, Marion Helen Carlisle, c. 1892–95. Gift of Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Silver cup trophy inscribed to S. G. Johnston by the Virginia State Fair Association as the first prize in the ten mile motorcycle race. Dated 10 October 1908. Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.
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