It was a pen-and-ink sketch of 18th-century soldiers walking next to a horse-drawn wagon that included two women and a baby. Depictions of an army on the march from that era were rare. He wasn’t ...

Find out more about what this space is all about here. This sketch, of an Army platoon leader of the 29 th Infantry Division fully dressed for D-Day, is by Lt. Jack Shea. In his annotations ...

"I like the fine point of the pencil. I use an Army mechanical pencil -- it's always sharp," Geig explained. Although he never had formal training, Geig has been commissioned to produce several ...

“This sketch is the first wartime depiction of North Carolina troops ­known to exist, and only the second-known depiction of female camp followers of the Continental Army done by an eyewitness ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

Army History, No. 119 (SPRING 2021), pp. 26-41 (16 pages) J. K. Finch, Topographic Maps & Sketch Mapping (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1920), ix. 2. P. Lee Phillips, “Washington as Surveyor and ...