Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1860, ka noho a Alfred Waud hei kaiwhakaahua, hei "kaitoi motuhake" (he kaitoi kaimahi utu-katoa) mo te "New York Illustrated News". I te Paenga-whāwhā 1861, i whakawhiwhia e te niupepa a Waud ki te hipoki i te ope taua o Potomac, te ope taua nui o Virginia. I whakaahuatia e ia a General Winfield Scott i Washington, DC, ka uru atu ki te mara ki te tuku i te Pakanga Tuatahi o Bull Run i te Hurae. I whai a Waud i te haerenga a te Uniana ki Cape Hatteras, North Carolina i te marama e whai ake nei ka kite i te
Ko te Pakanga o Hatteras Inlet Batteries. I taua ngahuru, i whakaahuatia e ia nga mahi a te ope taua i te rohe o Tidewater o Virginia. I uru a Waud ki te "Harper's Weekly" i te mutunga o te tau 1861, e haere tonu ana ki te hipoki i te pakanga. I te tau 1864, ko te tuakana o Alfred, ko William Waud (i mahi ia ki te ""Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper""), i uru atu ki a Alfred i runga i nga kaimahi o "Harper's" a i mahi tahi raua i te pakanga o Petersburg.