Conrad Freitag

During the American Civil War Freitag enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment. He was honorably discharged in June 1865. He returned to convalesce in New York where he painted a scene of the Spotsylvania battle, which is when his art career began.^[2]

His works were exhibited at the National Academy and the Brooklyn Art Association in the 1870s and 1880s. He was best known for his works of New York pilot boats.^[1]

Freitag died at the residence of his brother, Philip Freitag, at 488 North Second Street, on October 26, 1894, in Brooklyn, New York.^[3][2]