Eye Of The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684863650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sneden.. One of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs: the fully illustrated, eyewitness account of the war by a long forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert K
Wayne A. Smith said Soldier's Account of Civil War and Andersonville a Treasure. This book is remarkable and different from almost any other war remembrance I have come across. Not only has Robert Knox Sneden penned a highly descriptive account of his years with the Army of the Potomac and as a prisoner of war, his work is illustrated with scores of his own watercolors depicting what he saw -- many made at the time he was witnessing places and events during the war.Sneden had an unusual vantage point. An engineer and draftsman, Sneden's services were empl. "Great read for any Civil War Buff." according to Rheumor. I assume anyone looking at this review is or knows a Civil War buff. The possibility of finding an intact diary of someone who saw so much and who both sketched and wrote so well is simply irresistable. The editor has "buffed" it just enough to keep it flowing, but not too much to change the author's intended view of things. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and even if its detractors are correct and it proves to be a work of historical fiction, it still will have been a wonderf. A Customer said Wonderful overview of the war and Andersonville. If you are a student of the Civil War and have found compelling naratives of Andersonville missing.this book is a must read. While the book deals with Andersonville only in the last half, it is a wonderful narrative of the average soldiers life before and during that inhuman prison camp. This book and its illustrations are, simply, a must read. I was given a copy as a gift, and am now buying copies to give as gifts. The truly wonderful part of this book is the truly "average"
Highly recommended. Dead men may be seen by the score lying all along the brook which runs through the filthy swamp, while others are tearing off their soiled clothes to get thread from the seams, or patches to put on their own ragged clothes. In 1994, four scrapbooks in a Connecticut bank vault were found to contain some 800 drawings, the vast majority of them based on his original sketches. Soon after, a 5,000-page illustrated memoir based on Sneden's diaries was also discovered. --Sunny Delaney. Owing to his skills as an artist, Private Sneden was recruited to become a cartographer within a few months. Dozens of Sneden's detailed drawings illustrate the text, making this a must-have for Civil War buffs. This terrible heat helps to kill us off at the rate of 100 per day inside the stockade. And owing to his skills as both artist and cartographer, Civil War buffs can enjoy Eye of the Storm. During his time in the army, Sneden