ECW: Artillery Crossing a Ford

[NH Civil War Gal]

https://emergingcivilwar.com/2018/06/21/artillery-crossing-a-ford/

"Battery of Light Artillery en Route" by William T. Trego (1882) Courtesy of the Michener Art Museum

Walt Whitman wrote a short, evocative poem called "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" that has stayed with me for many years:

A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,

They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark
to the musical clank,

Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to
drink,

Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture,
the negligent rest on the saddles,

Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the
ford—while,

Scarlet and blue and snowy white,

The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

I think the painting is one of the most evocative I've seen for a war subject.

 

[UCVRelics]

Great Painting. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Sgt.DedHed]

Not hijack the thread but Trego is a favorite of mine. Some more of his art.

 

[JOHN42768]

Great works