9780684863658 - Eye Of The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey von Sneden, Robert (22 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light bumps and shelf wear. Oversize book may require extra postage for priority or international shipping.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Very Good. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). 2nd Printing. 352pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Clipped. Presumed first ed., 2000; first printing according to printer's key; 329 p., clean and unmarked except for gift inscription on front end page, on strong unaged paper; lavishly illustrated with color prints, including frontis., and maps; binding tight; boards and glossy pictorial d.j. have minimal wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). 1st Printing. 352pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). 4th Printing. 352pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). BCE.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). 4th Printing. 352pp. Size: Wide Large Octavo.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). 1st Printing. 329pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). Later Printing. 352pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). Later Printing (4th). 352pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). 1st Printing. 329pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustrator). 2nd Printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good - Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. An illustrated memoir of a Civil War soldier. Mild wear at the edges. A very good or better copy.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First. Ed. by Charles F. Bryan and Lankford, Nelson D. Color Illus. by the author. Square 8vo, 1/2 purple cloth, d.w. New York: Free Press, (2000). Near Fine.

Hardcover. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr. and Nelson D. Lankford. Small 4to. Burgundy paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 329pp. Color frontispiece, numerous color illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first edition of this newly-discovered Civil War private's scrapbook watercolors and diary.

Zustand: very good, very good. Second Printing. 329, illus. (some in color), maps, note on sources, index. This Civil War history is based on the writings of a Union soldier who was captured and sent to Andersonville, the infamous Confederate prison where thousands died. Sneden survived the war and his papers reside in the Virginia Historical Society. Two scholars have extracted the best of his writings and have added battle drawings, illustrations, and commentary.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xvi, 329 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780684863658, 0684863650 ; OCLC 43662006 ; LCCN 00026453 ; LOC No E601 .S667 2000 ; red cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "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. ; Contents: To the front! -- Under fire -- Coonfusion and darkness: the seven days -- Enough of terrible figting -- Captured -- On to Richmond -- Prison train to Andersonville -- The Hell on Earth -- Freedom ; foxing on some pages ; FINE/FINE. Book.