EYE OF THE STORM: A Civil War Odyssey ~ Written And Illustrated By Private Robert Knox Sneden.

Langue : anglais

Edité par NY etc~. 2000. The Free press, 2000

0684863650 / 9780684863658

  • Éd. originale
  • Livre relié
  • Occasion
Afficher toutes les informations
Image de l’article 1 de 3
Partenaire historique

Vendeur : Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, Etats-UnisChris Fessler, Bookseller

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 17 mars 1998

Livre relié

Etat: Occasion

EUR 10,09

EUR 5,30 expédition 
Expédition nationale : Etats-Unis

Quantité disponible : 1 disponible

Ajouter au panier
Retours gratuits sous 30 jours

A propos de cet article

red hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). full color frontis. self portrait. xvi+329p. glossy pages throughout. full color illustrations throughout, several full page. note on sources. editorial method. acknowledgments. index. american history. biography. autobiography. memoirs. american civil war. military history. ~ 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. Sneden joined the Union army after the fall of Fort Sumter, in the jubilant, patriotic summer of 1861, and first served as a soldier, drilling, going out on picket, and seeing a few skirmishes. By 1862, however, he had parlayed his talent for sketching into a coveted appointment as a map~maker at corps headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. For nearly two years, Sneden was in a singular position to see many of the Civil War's greatest campaigns firsthand, including the Peninsula campaign and the vicious fighting of the Seven Days, as well as the second battle of Bull Run. On the evening of November 26,1863, however, he had a "premeditation that something would happen before morning." Later that night, isolated behind the lines near Brandy Station, Virginia, with a small band of poorly armed men, he was surprised and captured by the celebrated Colonel John Mosby. Bareback on mules and in filthy cattle cars, Sneden and a dozen other soldiers were transferred south as prisoners of war, first to Richmond, then to the notorious Andersonville prison camp. In Andersonville, 30,000 prisoners of war were crammed onto a patch of ground that provided them each with, as one historian calculated, "about the square footage of a grave." It was indeed a graveyard for many. Built over a filthy, fetid stream, it swelled to become the fifth~largest city in the South, completely overrunning its meager capacities for food and sanitation. Groups of prisoners preyed on the innocent; starving men despaired of survival. Sneden persevered, hiding his diary and his sketches in his clothing and shoes, and faithfully recording everything he saw. In the end, against all odds, he survived. Retuming to Washington, he found a notation of "missing, believed dead" in his service record and corrected it by hand. He spent the remainder of his life perfecting one of the richest and most detailed descriptions ever written of soldier life in the Civil War, and the only fully illustrated account of life inside Andersonville. 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. We know little about Private Robert Knox Sneden beyond the pages of his memoir. He returned horne to new York after his release from Andersonville and died alone in an oLd soldiers' home in 1918.…

N° de réf. du vendeur 6052101

Titre
EYE OF THE STORM: A Civil War Odyssey ~ Written And Illustrated By Private Robert Knox Sneden.
Auteur
Sneden, Private Robert Knox ( Charles F. Bryan, Jr. & Nelson D. Lankford, Editors0
Éditeur
NY etc~. 2000. The Free press
Année de publication
2000
Jaquette
Jaquette
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0684863650
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780684863658
Édition
Edition originale
Catalogues du vendeur
american civil war, american history, autobiography

Chris Fessler, Bookseller

Howell, MI, Etats-Unis

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 17 mars 1998

Frais d'expédition à l'intérieur de ce pays : Etats-Unis

Article5 à 14 jours ouvrés3 à 6 jours ouvrés
Premier articleEUR 5,30EUR 12,47
Les délais de livraison sont fixés par les vendeurs et varient en fonction du transporteur et du lieu. Les commandes transitant par les douanes peuvent être retardées et les acheteurs sont responsables de tous les droits ou frais associés. Les vendeurs peuvent vous contacter au sujet de frais supplémentaires afin de couvrir toute augmentation des coûts d'expédition de vos articles.

Modes de paiement

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Chèque
  • Mandat
  • Paypal

Description de la boutique

Internet / Mail Order Only.

Spécialité

oriental history, philosophy & religion, world religions. the ancient world, prehistoric and primitive art, occultism. theosophy. history of science., ancient religion, ancient history, ancient philosophy, travel.exploration.world history, cookbooks, international cuisine, ethnic cuisine, astrolatry, archaeoastronomy, astroarchaeology, medieval histor, espionage. secret societies. conspiracy theor

Profil professionnel du vendeur

Chris Fessler, Bookseller

MI, Etats-Unis