Battle before New Bern, North Carolina, 8th Connecticut Volunteers charging - March 14, 1864

Corporal Shadek depicted New Bern, North Carolina, numerous times in his sketchbook. Toward the end of the sketchbook, a "landscape" painting is included with "Newbern on Fire, after the Battle, March 14th, 1862." New Bern, NC, was the site of fierce fighting between Union and Confederate forces and Union troops occupied the city for the remainder of the war. It was at this location in North Carolina that Shadek's Company A. suffered its first casualties.