# A Bit of War History: The Recruit

- By: Thomas Waterman Wood (American, Montpelier, Vermont 1823–1903 New York)
- Date: 1866
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 28 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (71.8 x 51.4 cm) (framed with 84.12a and 84.12c)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1884
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13346)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/ad/web-large/DT2077.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)