WILLIAM BROOKE THOMAS TREGO (1858-1909) 

Commissary Department: Baggage Train, July 21, 1861

                                 
                 Commissary Department: Baggage Train, July 21, 1861, hand-colored reproduction, The Army and Navy of the United States.    
                                         
Commissary Department: Baggage Train, July 21, 1861,
1892                          

(The Retreat from the Battle of Bull Run, July 21 1861; The Great Skedaddle; The Rout of the Federal Army After the Battle of Bull Run)

o/c, original dimensions unknown  

signed lr: "W. T. Trego"

Location of original unknown.

 

Reproductions: As “The Rout of the Federal Army After the Battle of Bull Run,” in color, in Guy Carleton Lee, ed., The History of North America, George Barrie, Philadelphia, 1904; Reproduced as glass magic lantern slide, “#250. Northern Conception of Enthusiastic Troops,” The Pageant of America series, by Yale University Press, c. 1925; Used as illustration, “The Great Skedaddle,” in Wendy Vierow, The Battle of Bull Run: Confederate Forces Overwhelm Union Troops, The Rosen Publishing Group, 2004, p. 15

 

The painting was one of seven commissioned by publisher, George Barrie, of Philadelphia as illustrations for his monumental The Army and Navy of the United States, Philadelphia, 1889-1895. It was reproduced in Section VIII, as a photolithograph, 9½ x 11¾ inches, hand colored in deluxe editions. The image was also issued separately as a b/w mounted print.

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