Henry Alexander Ogden

In 1881 he resigned from Leslie's to set up as a free-lance artist, submitting numerous illustrations to various newspapers and magazines.

A number of these were illustrations of historical scenes, and Ogden's interest in early America and the Revolutionary War led him to his most ambitious project, to record the uniforms of the United States Army.

The first dozen watercolors were completed by the mid-1880s; these were used in the Regulations for the Uniform of the Army of the United States published in May 1888.

The artist began work on seventy paintings representing uniforms worn between 1774 and 1888.

Besides his work on the uniform series, Ogden was a prolific illustrator for books including The Pageant of America.