Eye of the storm

the long version

"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.