Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey

ISBN-10: 0684863650
ISBN-13: 9780684863658
Series: Eye of the Storm
Pages: 329
Language: English
Published: 2000
Publisher: Free Press
Authors: Nelson D. Lankford, Charles F. Bryan

Description

"Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs. Four tattered scrapbooks found in a Connecticut bank vault in 1994 yielded a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's great national drama. These scrapbooks--plus a five-thousand-page illustrated memoir that came to light later--are the life's achievement of a long-forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden.