The Civil War art of Private Robert Knox Sneden only recently became known with last year's landmark publication of 'Eye Of The Storm', which offered a tantalising tip of the iceberg in the form of eighty small images. The entire collection of Sneden's surviving work - not only watercolours but also landscape sketches, engravings, and maps - numbers nearly 1,000. This book offers 300 of the finest examples of Sneden's art.
It is a magnificent opus: the largest extant collection of Civil War art and a virtual video of America's war against herself. Here, in full-sized glory, is one of the best collections of soldier art ever found.
