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Images from the Storm: Private Robert Knox Sneden. Ed. Charles F. Bryan Jr., Nelson D. Lankford, and James C. Kelly. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. 263. $50.00.)
The memoir of Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden was a literary and pictorial success when it was published as Eye of the Storm in 2000 by two staff members of the Virginia Historical Society. Charles Bryan and Nelson Lankford are joined by a third colleague, James Kelly, in this impressive sequel, which contains 300 of his illustrations, most in vibrant color. Readers will easily recognize why the emergence of Sneden's work is being hailed as a unique find.
Sneden enlisted in the 40th New York Volunteers in 1861. An artist by avocation, his sketches were noticed by an officer and he was detached to draw maps for Brig. Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman. The new cartographer served in the Peninsula campaign, where he made the majority of his sketches, and the...