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Civil War Series
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Richard LeFevre
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Richard J. LeFevre’s Civil War Series presents the history of the War Between the States (1861 – 1865) through works on paper that depict 32 of the war’s most significant battles. By combining his love of history and his skill as an illustrator, LeFevre used inventive mixed-media techniques to create these powerful images inspired by his personal investigation into that terrible and definitive era. He sought to authenticate the audience experience by incorporating images from period publications such as Harper’s Weekly and Leslie’s Illustrated. Century-old woodcut engravings, made from sketches by Civil War artists who were present at the battles, were flash-framed onto paper with a copier. They were further manipulated with watercolor, pencil, and collage techniques. Some contain photographic tintype images of prominent battle figures. Military leaders, such as Grant, Lee, Meade, Stuart and Farragut are represented in the context of events pertinent to each battle. Throughout the series, LeFevre includes quotes from legendary figures and battle-weary foot soldiers. Technical drawings of engines and ironclads describe precise details of war machines that accompanied soldiers in battle. The paintings are allegorical in nature and are presented in chronological order. The Gettysburg triptych is the centerpiece of the exhibit. The Civil War Series, which took LeFevre four years to complete, portrays the Civil War without bias toward the Union or the Confederacy. The paintings premiered at The United States Civil War Center in the Foster Hall Gallery at Louisiana State University in 1998. On several occasions, LeFevre created dynamic public presentations, augmenting images from the series with his own spoken narrative and live, period music.
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Ball's Bluff
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Richard J. LeFevre
American, 1931 - 2000
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The Battle of Ball’s Bluff on October 21, 1861, started as a rather typical amphibious crossing of the Potomac River by the Union Army into Virginia to attack the Confederates. Unfortunately, the Union soldiers had to traverse the river in several boats making numerous trips, and when the battle turned them around, they had no boats to take them back. Many died on the beaches or were shot in the water.
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Civil War Series
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Richard LeFevre
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Richard J. LeFevre’s Civil War Series presents the history of the War Between the States (1861 – 1865) through works on paper that depict 32 of the war’s most significant battles. By combining his love of history and his skill as an illustrator, LeFevre used inventive mixed-media techniques to create these powerful images inspired by his personal investigation into that terrible and definitive era. He sought to authenticate the audience experience by incorporating images from period publications such as Harper’s Weekly and Leslie’s Illustrated. Century-old woodcut engravings, made from sketches by Civil War artists who were present at the battles, were flash-framed onto paper with a copier. They were further manipulated with watercolor, pencil, and collage techniques. Some contain photographic tintype images of prominent battle figures. Military leaders, such as Grant, Lee, Meade, Stuart and Farragut are represented in the context of events pertinent to each battle. Throughout the series, LeFevre includes quotes from legendary figures and battle-weary foot soldiers. Technical drawings of engines and ironclads describe precise details of war machines that accompanied soldiers in battle. The paintings are allegorical in nature and are presented in chronological order. The Gettysburg triptych is the centerpiece of the exhibit. The Civil War Series, which took LeFevre four years to complete, portrays the Civil War without bias toward the Union or the Confederacy. The paintings premiered at The United States Civil War Center in the Foster Hall Gallery at Louisiana State University in 1998. On several occasions, LeFevre created dynamic public presentations, augmenting images from the series with his own spoken narrative and live, period music.
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Brandy Station
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Richard J. LeFevre
American, 1931 - 2000
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1995
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The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia on June 9, 1863, was the largest cavalry engagement to take place on the North American continent and could be called the first engagement of the Battle of Gettysburg. General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the Union a second time by moving his armies northward behind the Blue Ridge Mountains heading into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Flanking Lee to the right, on the other side of the mountains, was the great Confederate cavalry commander Maj. Gen. James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart (shown in a photograph on the left). As Stuart’s cavalry rode north, they were surprised by the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac under the command of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton (shown in a photograph on the upper right). This painting depicts the conflict between General Stuart’s troops and Brig. Gen. John Buford’s brigade, also shown in a photograph on the lower right side. General Buford would be the man who arguably saved the day for the Union forces on the first day of Gettysburg by holding Seminary Ridge.
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Civil War Series
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Richard LeFevre
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Richard J. LeFevre’s Civil War Series presents the history of the War Between the States (1861 – 1865) through works on paper that depict 32 of the war’s most significant battles. By combining his love of history and his skill as an illustrator, LeFevre used inventive mixed-media techniques to create these powerful images inspired by his personal investigation into that terrible and definitive era. He sought to authenticate the audience experience by incorporating images from period publications such as Harper’s Weekly and Leslie’s Illustrated. Century-old woodcut engravings, made from sketches by Civil War artists who were present at the battles, were flash-framed onto paper with a copier. They were further manipulated with watercolor, pencil, and collage techniques. Some contain photographic tintype images of prominent battle figures. Military leaders, such as Grant, Lee, Meade, Stuart and Farragut are represented in the context of events pertinent to each battle. Throughout the series, LeFevre includes quotes from legendary figures and battle-weary foot soldiers. Technical drawings of engines and ironclads describe precise details of war machines that accompanied soldiers in battle. The paintings are allegorical in nature and are presented in chronological order. The Gettysburg triptych is the centerpiece of the exhibit. The Civil War Series, which took LeFevre four years to complete, portrays the Civil War without bias toward the Union or the Confederacy. The paintings premiered at The United States Civil War Center in the Foster Hall Gallery at Louisiana State University in 1998. On several occasions, LeFevre created dynamic public presentations, augmenting images from the series with his own spoken narrative and live, period music.
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Bull Run
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Richard J. LeFevre
American, 1931 - 2000
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1994
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The first major battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, at the Battle of Bull Run, or First Manassas as the South preferred to call it. Northern picnickers expecting to see the Southern army get a quick thrashing came from nearby Washington to spread out their tablecloths, eat chicken, open bottles of wine, and enjoy a good battle. But things got out of hand and did not go as they expected when the battle’s momentum swung to the South. This was the battle where Confederate General Barnard E. Bee (who died later that day) watched fellow Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson repeatedly repulse the enemy and famously observed, “Look there stands Jackson standing like a stone wall!” From that time forward, the general was known as “Stonewall” Jackson, and his troops was called the Stonewall Brigade. In the upper center of this painting is General Winfield Scott who was Commanding General of all Union forces at the beginning at the Civil War, yet was no longer physically able, due to poor health and his advanced age, to get on a horse or go to the field of battle. President Abraham Lincoln relieved him of this position after the Battle of Bull Run.
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Civil War Series
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Richard LeFevre
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Richard J. LeFevre’s Civil War Series presents the history of the War Between the States (1861 – 1865) through works on paper that depict 32 of the war’s most significant battles. By combining his love of history and his skill as an illustrator, LeFevre used inventive mixed-media techniques to create these powerful images inspired by his personal investigation into that terrible and definitive era. He sought to authenticate the audience experience by incorporating images from period publications such as Harper’s Weekly and Leslie’s Illustrated. Century-old woodcut engravings, made from sketches by Civil War artists who were present at the battles, were flash-framed onto paper with a copier. They were further manipulated with watercolor, pencil, and collage techniques. Some contain photographic tintype images of prominent battle figures. Military leaders, such as Grant, Lee, Meade, Stuart and Farragut are represented in the context of events pertinent to each battle. Throughout the series, LeFevre includes quotes from legendary figures and battle-weary foot soldiers. Technical drawings of engines and ironclads describe precise details of war machines that accompanied soldiers in battle. The paintings are allegorical in nature and are presented in chronological order. The Gettysburg triptych is the centerpiece of the exhibit. The Civil War Series, which took LeFevre four years to complete, portrays the Civil War without bias toward the Union or the Confederacy. The paintings premiered at The United States Civil War Center in the Foster Hall Gallery at Louisiana State University in 1998. On several occasions, LeFevre created dynamic public presentations, augmenting images from the series with his own spoken narrative and live, period music.
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Cedar Creek
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Richard J. LeFevre (1931 - 2000)
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1992
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The city of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands 72 times during the Civil War, as well as nine times in one day. On October 19, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman (the central figure in this painting) had just returned from official meetings in Washington D.C. As he entered the city of Winchester, he heard fighting to the south. Without changing his clothes, he mounted his black horse, Ramsey, and rode out to find his army in total rout to the Confederates. General Sheridan road alongside the lines splashing mud, waving his hat in the air, cheering his men on, and rallied them back into the fight.
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Civil War Series
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Richard LeFevre
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Richard J. LeFevre’s Civil War Series presents the history of the War Between the States (1861 – 1865) through works on paper that depict 32 of the war’s most significant battles. By combining his love of history and his skill as an illustrator, LeFevre used inventive mixed-media techniques to create these powerful images inspired by his personal investigation into that terrible and definitive era. He sought to authenticate the audience experience by incorporating images from period publications such as Harper’s Weekly and Leslie’s Illustrated. Century-old woodcut engravings, made from sketches by Civil War artists who were present at the battles, were flash-framed onto paper with a copier. They were further manipulated with watercolor, pencil, and collage techniques. Some contain photographic tintype images of prominent battle figures. Military leaders, such as Grant, Lee, Meade, Stuart and Farragut are represented in the context of events pertinent to each battle. Throughout the series, LeFevre includes quotes from legendary figures and battle-weary foot soldiers. Technical drawings of engines and ironclads describe precise details of war machines that accompanied soldiers in battle. The paintings are allegorical in nature and are presented in chronological order. The Gettysburg triptych is the centerpiece of the exhibit. The Civil War Series, which took LeFevre four years to complete, portrays the Civil War without bias toward the Union or the Confederacy. The paintings premiered at The United States Civil War Center in the Foster Hall Gallery at Louisiana State University in 1998. On several occasions, LeFevre created dynamic public presentations, augmenting images from the series with his own spoken narrative and live, period music.
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Chancellorsville
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Richard J. LeFevre (1931 - 2000)
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Fought from April 30 through May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. The battle gets it name from the small village two miles from the battlefield, as well as the large brick home of the Chancellor family where the Union command made its headquarters. General Lee’s army was outnumbered by two to one as it faced the Union Army of the Potomac’s new commander, Maj. Gen. Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker, General Ambrose Burnside's replacement. Finding himself outnumbered and outmaneuvered in the run-up to the battle, General Lee audaciously decided to send Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson with 33,000 of their troops behind Hooker’s entrenched army in a flanking maneuver, which left only 15,000 men with Lee to face Hooker’s 133,000 soldiers. In characteristic Jackson fashion, the ruse worked. In fact, in worked supremely. The Confederates defeated the Union Army, went back to Fredericksburg to defeat another Union Army, and then came back to mop up the first one. However, Chancellorsville’s most tragic and costly event for the South occurred on the evening of May 2, when Generals Jackson and A.P. Hill were on horseback aligning Hill’s fresh regiments to attack Hooker’s right a second time after Jackson’s successful surprise attack earlier in the day. Darkness was falling and after the generals conferred, a shot rang out from the 18th North Carolina regiment toward the group of 19 men. In the ensuing “friendly fire” melee, General Jackson was hit three times: once each in the right hand, left elbow, and left shoulder. About that time the Confederates opened up with an artillery barrage making it difficult to get the general to safety. He was actually dropped several times as they tried to move him to the rear of the line where General Jackson’s left arm had to be amputated. As he recuperated, Jackson received a message from General Lee from the front lines that read, “General Jackson, you may have lost your left arm, but I have lost my ‘right’ arm!” Jackson seemed to rally for a time, but eventually developed pneumonia, and on May 10, 1863, he passed away to the great grief of his troops and Southerners alike. His last words to his wife, Mary, were, “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”
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Civil War Series
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Richard LeFevre
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Richard J. LeFevre’s Civil War Series presents the history of the War Between the States (1861 – 1865) through works on paper that depict 32 of the war’s most significant battles. By combining his love of history and his skill as an illustrator, LeFevre used inventive mixed-media techniques to create these powerful images inspired by his personal investigation into that terrible and definitive era. He sought to authenticate the audience experience by incorporating images from period publications such as Harper’s Weekly and Leslie’s Illustrated. Century-old woodcut engravings, made from sketches by Civil War artists who were present at the battles, were flash-framed onto paper with a copier. They were further manipulated with watercolor, pencil, and collage techniques. Some contain photographic tintype images of prominent battle figures. Military leaders, such as Grant, Lee, Meade, Stuart and Farragut are represented in the context of events pertinent to each battle. Throughout the series, LeFevre includes quotes from legendary figures and battle-weary foot soldiers. Technical drawings of engines and ironclads describe precise details of war machines that accompanied soldiers in battle. The paintings are allegorical in nature and are presented in chronological order. The Gettysburg triptych is the centerpiece of the exhibit. The Civil War Series, which took LeFevre four years to complete, portrays the Civil War without bias toward the Union or the Confederacy. The paintings premiered at The United States Civil War Center in the Foster Hall Gallery at Louisiana State University in 1998. On several occasions, LeFevre created dynamic public presentations, augmenting images from the series with his own spoken narrative and live, period music.
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Chattanooga
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Richard J. LeFevre (1931 - 2000)
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1991
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After retreating from Chickamauga, the Union Army of the Cumberland settled into Chattanooga while the Confederates ringed the hills around them so they could not get food. One army was in about as bad a shape as the other. In order to survive, General Ulysses S. Grant organized what he called a “cracker line” to bring hardtack down the Tennessee River by boat, and into the city of Chattanooga by mule trains. In a rare amphibious attack at Browns Ferry, the Confederates attacked the Federals at night, and the mule drivers in the rear of the Union lines panicked and ran. The unattended mules panicked and ran as well, except the mules ran directly at the Confederate lines. The Confederate troops thought it was a cavalry charge which they routed and drove the mules back across the river. The next day General Grants’ Quartermaster Major wrote a letter to Grant saying, “Because of the exceptional bravery shown by our mules, I recommend that they be given the rank of horse.” Two battles were fought for the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Battle of Lookout Mountain, also called the Battle Above the Clouds, was fought on November 24, 1863, and the Battle of Missionary Ridge was engaged the next day. I did not have the energy to paint both, so I painted the Battle of Lookout Mountain, and the quotation is from the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Shown on the left of this painting is General Grant, with Confederate General Braxton Bragg on the right. The Union Army is stretched along the bottom of the piece with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker on his white horse preparing to lead the attack on Elk Mountain (he is also shown in a small picture at lower right). The general was called “Fighting Joe” Hooker by his troops, but he hated that term, perhaps due to how he acquired it. Each day of the war, the New York newspapers would publish headlines that read “Fighting:” followed by the rest of the headline. One day the newspaper omitted the colon after the word “fighting”, so the headline read “Fighting Joe Hooker”, and that's how Hooker got his accidental nickname.
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Civil War
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Tennessee
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