Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'afọ 1860, Alfred Waud ghọrọ onye na-ese ihe ma ọ bụ "onye na-ese ihe pụrụ iche" (onye na-ese ihe a na-akwụ ụgwọ oge niile) maka "New York Illustrated News". N'April 1861, akwụkwọ akụkọ ahụ nyere Waud ọrụ ikpuchi ndị agha nke Potomac, ndị isi ndị agha Union nke Virginia. Ọ buru ụzọ mee ihe atụ General Winfield Scott na Washington, D.C., wee banye n'ọhịa iji gosipụta Agha Mbụ nke Bull Run na July. Waud sooro ndị Union gaa njem njem na Cape Hatteras, North Carolina n'ọnwa na-esote ma hụ ka
Agha nke Batrị Hatteras Inlet. N'oge mgbụsị akwụkwọ ahụ, o sere ihe ndị agha na-eme n'ógbè Tidewater nke Virginia. Waud sonyeere "Harper's Weekly" na njedebe nke 1861, na-aga n'ihu na-ekpuchi agha ahụ. N'afọ 1864 nwanne Alfred, William Waud (onye ruo mgbe ahụ na-arụ ọrụ na ""Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper""), sonyeere Alfred na ndị ọrụ nke "Harper's" ha rụkọkwara ọrụ ọnụ n'oge Mgbasa Ozi Petersburg.