Unique Civil War Graphics

General Burnside on the Road from New Berne to Beaufort, North Carolina
From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

“Log Fort near New Berne” circa 1862
James Wells Champney Sketchbook

Fort Macon - Christmas Day
Champney Sketch
State Archives of North Carolina

James Wells Champney was born in 1843 and died in 1903 in a tragic fall down an elevator shaft at the Camera Club in New York, where he had gone to develop a couple of images. Champney was a noted painter and illustrator who studied with Edouard Frere and at the Antwerp Academy in 1868.

Siege of Fort Macon by Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper artist Frank Schell

Fort Macon sketch by artist Frank Schell
Etching later published in Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Burnside's "March to besiege Fort Macon"

 1862 Map of Beaufort Harbor. George Woolworth Colton. Library of Congress