[Harper's Weekly]: [Osbon, Bradley S.]:

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[ORIGINAL SKETCH OF FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA, MADE FOR Harper's Weekly IN 1861]. A pencil sketch with watercolor shading, depicting part of Fort Monroe, Virginia, drawn for potential publication in Harper's Weekly in October 1861 by Bradley S. Osbon, freelance reporter and self-described "sailor of fortune," with his name signed on the lower left and on the verso. Osbon made several written and illustrated contributions to Harper's Weekly, including reporting on the construction of the ironclad Monitor, also from Fort Monroe. The fort, at the southern tip of the Virginia peninsula, remained under Union control throughout the war, and was used as prison for captured Confederate soldiers and as a refuge for fugitive slaves.

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