RIGHTING THE RECORD

the fascinating reminiscence by Confederate Private Alexander Hunter in the September 2021 issue (Crossing the “Rubicon”). I’d like to comment on the images of Rebel troops crossing the Potomac River that appeared on page 37. According to artist Alfred R. Waud’s diary, he produced the top image on September 8, 1862, two days after he had crossed the Potomac with James Longstreet’s men on September 6. The drawing, later rendered as a watercolor, probably does not show White’s Ford as the caption states. Rather, it likely depicts the crossing of Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton’s cavalry at Conrad’s Ferry (known after the war as White’s Ferry) on September 5. Hampton completed this crossing after nightfall and in bright moonlight at