Charles Wellington Reed papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: United States; Art; Military life; United States. Army. Massachusetts Artillery Battery, 9th (1862-1865); Art and the war; Illustration of books; United States. Army; Soldiers as artists; Personal narratives; History
Description: Correspondence, diary (1864), ink and pencil sketches, watercolors, prints, lithographs, books illustrated by Reed, citations, military papers, printed material, maps, medals, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Reed's service in the 9th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery and to military life during the Civil War.  Includes two volumes containing circa 700 wartime sketches, some drawn during actual combat.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Grace M. Schirmer, 1928.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Artist and soldier.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001005