Record #:

1900

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

Two sketchbooks by a Union soldier, James Wells Champney, have been acquired by the North Carolina Maritime History Council. Nearly 400 drawings depict camp, fort, and African-American life in Eastern North Carolina during the war.

Source:

Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 42 Issue 5, Sept 1994, p129-132, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans; Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903; North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works