Images from the Storm: 300 Civil War Images

As a follow-up to Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden's illustrated contemporary Civil War memoir, published last year, Images from the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm arrives this fall. Alongside excerpts from the memoir appear maps, watercolors, sketches and engravings by the cartographer and soldier. Many of the drawings date to Sneden's year as a prisoner of war at the infamous Andersonville prison. His work wavers between skilled illustration and ""folk"" artistic imagery though even these latter display his ability in rendering perspective, proportion, etc. Scholars of American art and of the Civil War will benefit from these visual documents, but anyone interested in American history will respond. (Oct. 4)