Eye of the storm
Subtitle: a Civil War odyssey
By: written and illustrated by Robert Knox Sneden ; edited by Charles F. Bryan, Jr., and Nelson D. Lankford.
Contributors: Bryan, Charles F.; Lankford, Nelson D.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.; Andersonville Prison -- Biography.; Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.; Prisoners of war -- Georgia -- Andersonville -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
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.".

"A must-have for anyone interested in the subject, Robert Knox Sneden's Eye of the Storm is a permanent addition to Civil War literature and art, and a lasting achievement in human expression of the horrors of war."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.