The morning after the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. The dead, dying, and wounded lay thick on the field. Around 55,000 of them across some four square miles. Artist is John Heaviside Clark.
Union soldiers of the 36th Illinois open fire on Confederate Brig. Gen. Benjamin McCulloch as he rides through a tree line near Leetown, Arkansas, during the Battle of Pea Ridge on March 7, 1862. He is wearing all black as he disliked army uniforms and preferred to wear civilian clothing.