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.