Hand Drawn Sketch Of Confederate CIVIL War Prison

  

Original sketch (15.5" X 8") from life by John Donaghy, Captain of the. Drawn on lined stationary paper (likely all he had while in Oglethrope and Andersonville). Formal caption on matt CAMP OGLETHROPE Macon, Ga. Drawn by John DOnaghy, Capt. Lee was a prisoner with others of the 27th Mass.

INCLUDED is the original book he authored Army Experience of Capt. Exterior excellent--interior stained with pencil scratches. Donaghy rose to the rank of captain and spent some time in the Andersonville Prison and other prisons after being captured by the Confederacy. Genre and landscape painter, John Donaghy was also a newspaper artist during the Civil War. Born in Pennsylvania and with the onset of the civil war led him to enlist as a private in the Pennsylvania Volunteers in December 1861.

He became a captain, was wounded, captured, and imprisoned at Andersonville Prison, from which he escaped in April 1864. Following he received a disability discharge in December 1864. After his discharge he became a well known genre painter and worked mainly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and New York City. Source: Groce & Wallace, "The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America".

Born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, John served throughout the Civil War. After the war, he continued his artistic talents and became an illustrator for Harpers Weekly. He chronicled many important events in American history after the war, and was assigned to cover the Pennsylvania railroad riots, being sent to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1877. His drawings captured the railroad station burning, and subsequent meetings with army command relating to the riots. In the 1870s he was a premier artist in oil and watercolor masterpieces.

A listed artist in Davenports American Art reference book. John eventually retired in Deland, Florida and wrote a book about his experiences in the Civil War. His memoirs are published in the Army Experience of Captain John Donaghy, 103th Pennsylvania Volunteers. John had a brief stay in Andersonville before he was moved to Camp Oglethorpe. The War Prison Camp of Camp Oglethorpe consisted of a huge, somewhat hilly plot of land approximately a mile square.

The entire area was surrounded by two barbed-wire fences, about ten feet high. Tripod watch towers were located outside the barbed wire perimeter. Each tower was equipped with a search light, telephone and machine-gun. The camp was divided into two component parts. Camp A, the "millionaire's camp, " housed wealthy prisoners in private rooms who paid for their own food, and also retained cooks and servants recruited from the stewards and sailors of the German maritime fleet.

Camp B consisted of some thirty barracks which housed the majority of the 4,000 prisoners. It was dominated by an immense mess-hall. During the war, Donaghy would become a captain and sketched wars scenes that would become the basis of his later illustration work.

He had the misfortune to be captured by the Confederacy and incarcerated at the infamous Andersonville Prison. The plucky artist escaped and later wrote a book detailing his Army experiences. Following the war, Donaghy settled in Pittsburgh and studied with George Hetzel, founder of the Scalp Level Movement, at the Pittsburgh School of Design and later at the National Academy of Design in New York City. Donaghy would concentrate his exhibiting of artwork in Pittsburgh and New York at several different venues. A nice chance to own a Civil War original drawing from a famous Confederate Camp while the artist was imprisoned there!

25, 61 - 3 mo. 7, 61 commissioned 2d Lt. F; born Hollidaysburg 24 blue eyes dark hair artist. June 22, 62: commissioned 1. April 17 - 20 Battle of Plymouth: WIA, GSW thigh.

April 20, 64 Plymouth POW Andersonville. Macon Camp Oglethorpe, Columbia Camp Sorghum. 19, 64 Columbia: escaped, ran the dead line.

30, 64 NY Tribune: POW Savannah Squad 5. 25, 64 New Berry captured. 4, 64 from Columbia, Nov. 20 Cedar Island, SC entered Union lines Misc.

18, 64 File Sultana Disaster. Wrote Army Experience of Capt.

Flusser and officers attending concert at Methodist Church, left via the windows when CSA action near Windsor alerted them, Lt. I called my Company F from the protection of the rifle pits and bombproof and. Joined the others in the street leading back into the town. 33of my men captured Plymouth, 9 reached home. April 22, 92 - Oct. Tribune: book review of Army Experience. 16, 1931 Deland, Florida died. The item "HAND DRAWN SKETCH OF CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR PRISON" is in sale since Sunday, August 21, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "jaguar7268qap" and is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped to United States.