Court House, Smithville, North Carolina (Capture of Wilmington)

Title

Court House, Smithville, North Carolina (Capture of Wilmington)

Abstract

In Leslie's Illustrated March 18, 1865, p. 412.

Date

February 3, 1865

Transcription

Recto: different hand: "Used Feb 24."
Verso: "Court House, Smithville NC // Feb 3rd." Different hand: "Va [canceled] // [Signed] J.B. // One of the apartments in this building was used as a shoe store and the rest as court offices. Piles of public dockuments [sic; k canceled] were strewn over the floors some of them very old dating as far back the times of Washington."

Condition

Raggedness along margins.

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

6.75 x 4.75 in.

Genre

Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870

Coordinates

35.4843031, -80.8706292999999

Source

Original drawing location: CW-JB-NC-2/3/65b (Box 3.)

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4623

Ref. Number

(Becker)CW-JB-NC-2/3/65b

Citation

Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910, “Court House, Smithville, North Carolina (Capture of Wilmington),” The Becker Collection, accessed November 21, 2024, https://beckercollection.bc.edu/items/show/2675.