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“Those who appreciate fine art will recognize Sneden's talent the minute they sit down to study it, while marveling at the way the fine color printing reproduces the work in all its vibrant glory . . . a one-of-a-kind pictorial record history.”

 
     
  History Book Club  
   

 

“Compelling watercolors . . . [a] cold-eyed, ground-level view of the macabre devastation of war.”

 
     
    The Washington Post  
     
  Detail “Sneden's work stands out [for its] hundreds of careful watercolors depicting everything from nightmarish prison camp conditions to the early use of hot-air balloons in battle.”  
     
    U.S. News and World Report  
   

 

“Meticulous watercolors . . . [a] rich trove.”
 
     
    The New York Times  
   

 

“Quite simply wonderful.”
 
     
  Civil War Book Review  
     
  “ A sensational discovery of a long-hidden treasure trove.”  
     
  Stephen B. Oates  
   

 

“The strength of this material, and the reason it is unusual, is its many drawings. Sneden includes drawings of so many places for which we have no visual representations. There were no photographs. No one else sketched them.”
 
     
  Gary W. Gallagher  
     
   

 

 

 

 

         
   


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