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Notes:
Condition: Vertical and horizontal folds; upper left quadrant missing; more missing along right margin?; ripping along bottom, upper and right margins; stain at upper right; pin marks.
Original drawing location: CW-HL-TN-3/17/62 (Box 5.)
Physical description of original: graphite and black chalk on wove paper ; 9 x 14 in.
Recto: "Sky perfectly clear. Try and make the steamboats in good shape, you represent them generally as most unnatural boxes. // Mortar boats. // Silver Wave Transport with troops. // Towboat W.F. Wilson (sternwheeler upper cabin 1/2 length). // St. Louis, Benton, Cincinatti lashed together head downstream. // Towboats Wisconsin No.2, Pike. // Attack March 17, 1862 on the Rebel Fortifications on opposi[te]. // Rebel fort Tenessee shore. // Conestoga. // Ferryboat Roby Roy."
Verso: "1st day (Saturday) reconaissance. // 2nd day (Sunday) bombardment by mortarboats. // 3rd day (Monday) general attack by gunboat mortars. // 4th day (Tuesday today) nothing yet except occasional bombarding."
