Alfred Rudolph Waud

  

Alfred Rudolph Waud (pronounced Wood) was an English born artist and illustrator, most notable for the sketches he made as an artist correspondent during the Civil War when all images in a publication had to be hand drawn and engraved by skilled artists. Photography existed but there was no way to transfer a photograph to a printing plate at the time.










In 1860, Alfred Waud became an illustrator for the New York Illustrated News and was assigned to follow the Army of the Potomac into battle. Alfred Waud attended every battle of the Army of the Potomac between the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 and the Siege of Petersburg in 1865.  Waud died in 1891 in Marietta, Georgia, while touring battlefields of the South.