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Also Known As Alfred Rudolph Waud
Born October 2, 1828 • London • England
Died April 6, 1891 (aged 62) • Marietta • Georgia

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Alfred Waud, artist for Harper's Weekly, sketching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863; photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
Union army camp during the Civil War, 1861; illustration by Alfred Waud.
Battle of Winchester, Virginia, May 1862; pencil drawing by Alfred Waud.
Female clerks leaving the U.S. Treasury Building; sketch by Alfred R. Waud for Harper's Weekly magazine, c. 1870s.
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