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EYEWITNESS SKETCH, THE DAY AFTER SECOND BULL RUN (CIVIL WAR.) Kellner, Anthony. Vicinity of Centreville, Aug. 31st 1862. Pencil drawing with early inked notes, 7 3/4 x 15 inches; pasted to mount along top edge, worn at edges with slight loss to image, vertical tear crudely repaired on verso, embossed notary stamp in upper right corner. Np, circa 1862
This delightfully naive sketch of a Civil War battle scene was done by the staff artist to General Sigel, Anthony Kellner. It depicts the retreat of Union soldiers in the wake of their defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run, which had ended the previous evening. The Confederate fortifications are noted on the distant horizon, while long streams of Union troops and wagons make their way to the hill in the foreground. On verso are a forged Abraham Lincoln signature and a notarized provenance note signed by William P. Brown: "This is from the collection given to her coachman William P. Brown by Mrs. Abraham Lincoln in 1866." The aged Mr. Brown had actually been a coachman to the Lincolns, but in the 1930s he signed countless books and manuscripts attesting to fraudulent Lincoln signatures.
