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This is one of the thirty-one pencil, chalk, and paint drawings (a selection appears in the
Eyewitnesses chapter of this exhibition) executed on the scene by illustrator Alfred R.
Waud. A soldier on sentry duty confronts two citizens. Eben Matthews recalled,
"Immediately after the fire there was organized a citizens' patrol. All persons ordered off
the streets at dark. The patrol marched by twos up and down the streets as soon as it
became dark and halted every passerby asking his destination. Then he was passed to the
next patrol on his way and so on. Of course such procedure was illegal, but it had the
force of public opinion back of it, and so was most effective in giving us the much needed
security."
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General Sheridan in Command 