Lankford Images From The Storm

Sneden, Robert Knox; Bryan, Charles F. Jr.;, and elly, James C., and Lankford, Nelson D. (Joint Editors): Images from the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm, New York Free Press 2001 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0743223608
0743223608 Fine

xxii, 263 pp., col. illus., col. maps, index; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The Civil War legacy of Robert Knox Sneden is an unparalleled treasure trove of words and pictures. The publication of the bestselling Eye of the Storm in the fall of 2000 first brought his memoir to light, accompanied by a sample of his artwork. In all, however, he crafted some 900 watercolors and sketches. Now, with the 300 watercolors, sketches, maps, and diagrams in Images from the Storm, his artistic legacy can be appreciated on its own terms -- an achievement equal in magnitude to his writings, and unsurpassed by any other Civil War soldier-artist. Images from the Storm presents the best of Sneden's art throughout his odyssey of combat, capture, imprisonment, and deliverance, a pictorial record of the war that puts the viewer in the shoes of a Union soldier as nothing else can. Sneden aimed for vivid detail and documentary accuracy in his maps, landscapes, battles, and scenes of camp life. He sketched the camps and surroundings of the Union army, the siege of Yorktown, the battle of Williamsburg, the approach of the army to within sight of the church spires of Richmond, and the tumultuous fighting retreat of the Seven Days' battles as the Union army shrank before a relentless Confederate offensive. He drew dozens of maps and sketched daily life around Washington, D.C., before his capture in autumn 1863. For the next thirteen months, Sneden was a prisoner of the Confederacy. In a drafty tobacco warehouse in Richmond, he sketched prison life and Confederate scenes before being packed with others aboard cattle cars for a jolting train ride south. In a remote corner of rural Georgia, he survived the outdoor prison at Andersonville and drew some of his most astonishing images of camp life and its suffering. When Andersonville was evacuated, he continued to make secret pencil sketches of Confederate prisons in Savannah and Millen, Georgia, and in Florence and Charleston, South Carolina. Finally freed in a massive prisoner exchange in Charleston harbor, he returned home to New York at Christmas 1864. He made little use of his architectural training thereafter, but devoted himself to compiling his memoir of the war and converting his pencil sketches into watercolors. A solitary man who never married, Sneden died at an old soldiers' home in Bath, New York, in 1918. His watercolors and his story were forgotten for nearly a century. Images from the Storm reproduces the best of Sneden's art in sharp colors, so we can appreciate fully the mastery of a miniaturist who saw it all, and sketched whenever and wherever he could. / Charles F. Bryan, Jr. (above, center), is Director and CEO of the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee and has written on the Civil War in East Tennessee and the Peninsula Campaign. He is President-Elect of the American Association for State and Local History and is writing a book on historical organizations and fund-raising. He was coeditor with Nelson Lankford of Eye of the Storm (2000)." - Publisher. First Edition, First Printing Very Good Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; First Edition, First Printing

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SNEDEN, PRIVATE ROBERT KNOX. Edited By Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James C. Kelly, Nelson D. Lankford. IMAGES FROM THE STORM: 300 Civil War Images By the Author of " EYE OF THE STORM" New York The Free Press 2001 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0743226308
0743226308 Fine ROBERT K. SNEDEN.

pp: xviii, 263. 300 reproductions of Snedens art, mostly in colour and including a number of maps. Chronology. Editorial method, index. A magnificent legacy in words and pictures, the latter being selected from over 900 paintings and drawings by Sneden. First Edition Fine Cloth- Backed Boards. Square 4to.; First Edition

[SW: America, History, Military, Civil War, Art.]

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Sneden, Private Robert Knox: Images from the Storm, New York The Free Press 2001 ; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0743223608

Hardcover with dustjacket. 4to. No edition stated. Book is in fine condition. Jacket is in fine condition. Contains 300 sketches, watercolors and maps depicting Sneden's experience in the Civil War. Edited by Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James C. Kelly, and Nelson D. Lankford. A beautiful book; not price-clipped. In protective mylar. 263 pp. including index. Hardcover

[SW: Civil War - watercolors and sketches. Civil war - history. Eye of the Storm. Charles F. Bryan, Jr. James C. Kelly.]

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SNEDEN, PRIVATE ROBERT KNOX: IMAGES FROM THE STORM, NY THE FREE PRESS 2001
0743223608 Very Good X/ATB

C-0090; BOX B-0085; INTRODUCTION; EDITORIAL LMETHOD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX; ; 300 CIVIL WAR IMAGES BY THE AUTHOR OF EYE OF THE STORM; EDITED BY CHARLES F BRYAN, JAMES C KELLY AND NELSON D LANKFORD'; WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PRIVATE ROBERT KNOX SNEDEN;263 PAGES; BLUE BOARDS AND SPINE; GOLD LETTEring; EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED DUE TO WEIGHT OF THE BOOK Very Good Cloth 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Private Press

[SW: USA; CIVIL WAR; ART; WAR; PICTORIAL WORKS; ROBERT KNOX SNEDEN; HISTORICAL MILITARY ART]

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