N.C. Wyeth

Carolyn Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (wife of artist; acquired directly from the artist by descent)

Carolyn Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (daughter of artist; acquired by descent from the above)

Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware

John Edward Dell, New York (acquired by 1995)

Illustration House, New York

Acquired from the above in September 1995 by the present owner

Crittenden Marriott, "Sally Castleton, Southerner," Everybody's Magazine, June 1912, p. 762, illustrated

Christine M. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. I427, p. 256, illustrated in color

The present work was published as an illustration for Crittenden Marriot’s story “Sally Castleton, Southernor” in the June 1912 issue of Everybody’s Magazine. Set during the American Civil War, Marriott’s story follows sisters Sally and Genie Castleton after receiving a letter from their father, Confederate General Champ Castleton, urging them to abandon the family farm located in rural Virginia and flee to Richmond ahead of advancing Union forces. Captioned “In Imagination She Could Hear the Rattling of the Drums, the Ring of Bugles, The Low Thunder of Rumbling Batteries,” the present scene depicts the moment when the Union Calvary arrives at Sally’s doorstep to search for Confederate soldiers.