WILLIAM BROOKE THOMAS TREGO (1858-1909)

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