![]() In between Yorktown and the head of the Warwick River stretched a line of Confederate fortifications including two Confederate forts. These fortifications stretched around Yorktown and then across the Peninsula along the banks of the Warwick River. As McClellan was stopped by Magruder’s army outside of Yorktown, he began laying siege to the Confederate fortifications. Blocking his path was General Magruder’s small Army of the Peninsula, later reinforced by General Johnston’s army. Tags: Bentley Boyd, Chester Comix, Civil War, Confederate, Ulysses S.In the spring of 1862, General McClellan took his 120,000 man Army of the Potomac to the Virginia Peninsula intent on reaching Richmond. It’s part of a pretty park in what is now Hopewell, VA, a place we’ve driven through to get to church for 14 years – and we’d NEVER stopped until after church this rainy Sunday! Grant stayed on a bluff above the James River during the months of siege against the Confederate railline at Petersburg, Virginia, just south of Richmond. Truman stands guard over the place where Union General Ulysses S. ![]() horrified!Īnd this photo is not of Grant’s tomb - it’s his cabin. Truman has a great eye for detail, and he discovered that the cannons posted outside one farmhouse used in the 1862 Seven Days Battle were actually cast in 1863, as we could see from a stamp in the barrel. Almost 150 years after they made the difference between life and death for some soldiers, these earthworks still run right behind people’s backyards! I always get a better sense of a story or event when I can walk the land where it happened, and it was chilling and beautiful to see how the defensive earthworks still snake over the land around Richmond We were amazed at how many defensive earthworks survive in the woods. So a few weekends ago we took a traipse through Civil War sites around Richmond. We’ve travelled hundreds of miles to climb rocks at Gettysburg, view the Cyclorama painting in Atlanta and walk the woods of Shiloh, but we had never stood at Cold Harbor. Posted in Civil War | No Comments » Rustling the old leaves Written on Monday, March 17th, 2008 įor all the exploring I do with my boys, we still make the classic Locals mistake! We have lived in Virginia for 15 years and still missed some great sites nearby. Tags: Bentley Boyd, cartoonist, Chester the Crab, Civil War, reenactor (He says he wants to grow up to work at a National Park Service historic site!!) This love of his has developed over many years and is getting quite rich. I’m so proud of Truman for investigating Civil War life and then going out and experiencing that history. They have great equipment and a lot of experience – and are glad to have a drummer boy! As soon as Truman started hanging out with them Saturday, he cocked his kepi like a veteran. They are based on the Peninsula, so it makes it easy for us to stay in contact with them. Truman and I found this unit of reenactors when we visited an event at the wonderful Endview Plantation in Newport News, Virginia in March. But that slower pace sure felt nice during this beautiful day of living history!) It’s a slower tool than a brush and I work quickly. (I’ve tried using a pen like this on my political cartoons off and on over the years but never felt completely comfortable. I am doing cartooning that a Civil War cartoonist could have been doing! I am indeed an ink-stained wretch (the classic description of a journalist)ī. I’ll post some of these rough draft pages soon for you to see how I put a book together, but here you can see thatĪ. The work I was doing was a rough draft of a Revolutionary War comic I’m doing in cooperation with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. (Which was a great use of time because I had a deadline to meet!!!) So here’s the reverb: I’m a freelance cartoonist who draws history who is, in this photo, portraying a Civil War freelance cartoonist who draws history with historically-accurate tools. I’m sure I’ll be a bluecoat soldier at some point, but for now it’s easy to act as a cartoonist freelancing for a New York newspaper while embedded with the 79th New York Volunteers unit! My son Truman and I did our first Civil War reenactment last weekend at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum. Civil War Cartoonist Written on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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