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|  Genre and landscape painter, John Donaghy was also a newspaper artist during the Civil War. Born in Pennsylvania and with the onset of the civil war led him to enlist as a private in the the Pennsylvania Volunteers in December 1861. He became a captain, was wounded, captured, and imprisoned at Andersonville Prison, from which he escaped in April 1864. Following he received a disability discharge in December 1864. After his discharge he became a well known genre painter and worked mainly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and New York City.
Source:
Groce & Wallace, "The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America" |
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