Loudoun Heights - 1862

Abstract

Signed lower right: W. Waud.Title inscribed upper left.Inscribed above image: Loudon[sic]Heights - advance of Couch's (late Sumners) Corps and Fitz John Porters Corps across the Shanendoah[sic]River; (Trees and rocks).Inscribed within image: Burned Bridge; Shanendoah[sic]River; Pontoon Bridge.Inscription on separate piece of paper underneath image. Inscribed on recto: Loudoun heights and ruins of the Bridge over the Shenandoah at Harpers Ferry. The copper ropes, and the piers are all that remain of the old bridge, it is about to be reconstructed, although the river is quite shallow and easily forded while the river is low. Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. Maryland heights is on the left or east side of the Potomac, Loudoun being opposite it. The bridge is that by which the Baltimore and Ohio R.R. crosses the Potomac, and which has been so often destroyed by the rebels, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, can be seen winding along the foot of Maryland heights. The view is taken from the old Harpers Ferry Cemetery in which many soldiers now repose. The view of Maryland hights[sic]and the Pontoon bridge, is taken some two miles above Harpers Ferry, the Balt. and Ohio R.R. being on the left, or Virginia shore. The wood has been cut off Maryland heights and the forts and military roads are distinguishable on its sides. The cave is near the Ponton[sic]bridge contains a fine spring of water about half a mile in, and it is said communicates with the Shenandoah, more than two miles away.Inscribed on verso: 21st Ohio, McCooks left, Negley div.; 5 chambered revolving muskets--lost 3/4ths covering retreat.Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2).Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings