Watching the Shot - a painting by Winslow Homer

Scene & Title Reunited: Notes: A Battle Scene and a Title Reunited

Watching the Shot

Notes: A Battle Scene and a Title Reunited

2.1
Marc Simpson, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.167

2.2
Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, pp.251-253, 287-293, 329

2.3
Conversation with J.G. Bilby; Joseph G. Bilby served as a lieutenant with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam and received his BA and MA degrees in history from Seton Hall University.  He is a columnist for the "Civil War News," Assistant Curator of the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey and author of several hundred magazine articles and eight books including Small Arms at Gettysburg, published November, 2007

2.4
Marc Simpson, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.242

2.5
Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, pp.95, 100

2.6
Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.93

2.7
Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.255

2.8
Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, p.314

2.9
Sally Mills, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.213, note #8

2.10
Lucretia H. Giese, Prisoners from the Front: An American History Painting? Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.77

2.11
Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, p.278 #226-R

2.12
A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, p.278

2.13
A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, p.315

2.14
A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, p.278

2.15
A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, p.125

2.16
Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume I, 1846 through 1866, 2005, pp.188, 191-193, 200, 260

2.17
The confederate flag within the painting, Watching the Shot, was first identified as the Stars and Bars, CSA First National Flag by Farmville and High Bridge historian Bob Flippin of Farmville, Virginia. Image and additional information from the website, www.sonofthesouth.net

2.18
2.17.1 Information on Zoauve units serving in the Civil War and the Duryee Zouaves was found on several websites, including; http://www.geocities.com/zouavedatabase/cwuni.html; http://fifthvets.tripod.com/nyzouave.html; http://www.zouave.org/

2.19
Sally Mills, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, pp.176-177

2.20
Sally Mills, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.177

2.21
Sally Mills, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.145

2.22
Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.220

2.23
Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, 1988, p.256



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