Gallery-Art

"Confederate Scouts Observing a Union Encampment on the Gauley River" by William D. Washington, oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches, ca. 1862. Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Va.

 William DeHartburn Washington was born in Clarke County, VA, in 1833 or 1834. He studied with Emanuel Leutze in Philadelphia. He began his professional career about 1856, in Washington, DC, and moved to Richmond when the war began, joining the army as a draftsman in the Corps of Engineers and was stationed in the Kanawha Valley in 1862. He was appointed  professor of fine arts at VMI, and died in 1870.

"Halt of the Stonewall Brigade" by David English Henderson, oil on canvas, 26 x 38 inches, 1865. Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC. 

David E. Henderson was born in Jefferson County, WV, in 1832. He was an assistant to David Hunter Strother, but served with Stonewall Jackson and Gen. Lee during the war, sometimes as a cartographer. He returned to Jefferson County and died in 1887.

"Camp, 59th Virginia Infantry at Diascund Bridge, May 1863" by Conrad Wise Chapman, who was a soldier in the 59th. This regiment had about 8 companies of West Virginians during its organization.

"Floyd's Command, Gauley Bridge, (West) Virginia" by William D. Washington, oil on canvas, 44 x 36 inches, 1864. Private Collection.