Artist/Maker
William T. Crane
(1832 - 1865)
Punishing the Ringleader of the Mutineers of the New York Volunteer Engineers, Hilton Head, South Carolina
15 December 1862
Graphite on paper
Overall: 4 7/8 x 6 3/16 in. ( 12.4 x 15.7 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
James B. Wilbur Fund
1945.580.12
DescriptionCivil War Drawings Collection. See also 1945.580.35 and 1945.580.90. The incident occured at Willett's Point, Monday December 9, 1862, near the encampment of the New York Rifles. Captain Cresto, of Company B, had a dispute with a lieutenant of his company and was about to leave the regiment with his men to join Colonel Fadella's regiment. Col. Legendre stationed a guard of twenty-five or thirty men, with loaded arms, to prevent the desertion. Intercepted, Captain Cresto demanded the privilege of passing, which the guard would not permit. The antagonistic parties were drawn up across the road when a pistol belonging to Sergeant Thompson, one of Captain Cresto's party, went off, as the Sergeant said, by accident. The guard returned fire and two of the deserters were killed and four wounded. Captain Cresto fled but was captured, eventually convicted with most of his men, and sent to a military prison on Hilton Head Island. Reproduced in Phillip Van Doren Stern, They were There: The Civil War in Action as Seen by its Combat Artists (New York: Crown, 1959), pg. 134, pl. 160.
InscribedVerso inscribed in graphite: "Punishing the ringleader of the / mutineers of the 'N.Y. Volunteer Engineers' of the 'Rip Reps' / Hilton Head S.C. Dec 15th / 62."
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Arthur Lumley
September 1861
1945.580.31
Unidentified artist
June 17, 1863
1945.580.55
Unidentified artist
10-11 February 1862
1945.580.84
Unidentified artist
19 October 1864
1945.580.100
Unidentified artist
22-25 April 1861
1945.580.37
Arthur Lumley
September-December 1861
1945.580.20
Unidentified artist
Autumn 1864
1904.12
