A fact from Alfred Waud appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
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