Title: A Bit of War History: The Recruit
Object type: Painting
Date: 1866
Culture: American
Artist:  Thomas Waterman Wood 
Artist bio: American, Montpelier, Vermont 1823–1903 New York
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (71.8 x 51.4 cm)
(framed with 84.12a and 84.12c)
Credit line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1884
Department: The American Wing
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Soldiers, term: Firearms, term: American Civil War, term: Men, term: Portraits