Sneden private robert knox (56 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. DJ Very Good. 2nd Printing. 352pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket First Printing hardbound Monday, November 30, 2009 11:43:43 AM.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket First Printing hardbound Quarto Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:49:41 PM.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: DJ Very Good. 1st Printing. 352pp. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).

A Hardbound Book. Condizione: Very Fine/New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Fine/New in Mylar. First Edition First Printing.

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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: DJ Near Fine. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: DJ Near Fine. 4th Printing. 352pp. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: DJ Fine. BCE. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. DJ Near Fine. 4th Printing. 352pp. Size: Wide Large Octavo. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. DJ Near Fine. 1st Printing. 329pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. DJ Near Fine. Later Printing. 352pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. DJ Near Fine. Later Printing (4th). 352pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. DJ Near Fine. 1st Printing. 329pp. From Publisher's Weekly: "Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, 29-year-old Robert Sneden joined the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry. Sneden's prewar career as an architect/engineer attracted the attention of higher officers, and the young Canadian was detached as a cartographer for most of his brief military career, seeing action in the Second Manassas and on a few other occasions. On November 27, 1863, Sneden was seized by rebel troops led by the famed John S. Mosby and hustled south to a Richmond prison. In early 1864, he was among the first batch of Union prisoners sent to Andersonville, Ga., where more than 13,000 prisoners died. After transfers to other Southern camps, Sneden was finally exchanged in December 1864. Throughout his army career, Sneden kept a journal and sketched numerous sites of his experiences. Although the journal itself has disappeared, a very journal-like postwar memoir of some 5,000 pages based on his wartime experience and heavily illustrated by him has been found. Editors (Charles F.) Bryan and (Nelson D.) Lankford, of the Virginia Historical Society (which owns the Sneden collection), have excerpted the more important sections of this compellingly straightforward account and provided more than 70 color illustrations of battle fields, city layouts and other scenes that caught Sneden's precise, cartographic eye. Summaries fill in blanks from the larger work, and brief identifications of period people and terms are helpfully included, but it's really the pictures that tell the best story here. The end result is a pleasing palate of vivid (if not quite reflective) descriptions and terrific watercolors from a patriotic man. Size: Wide Large Octavo. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Edited by Charles F. Bryan,Jr., James C. Kelly, and Nelson D. Lankford. Contents Includes: Learning to Soldier; On to Richmond!; The Good Life; Captured; After the War. Very good tight condition with very good dust jacket. Like New. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good in Dustjacket. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New York. 2000. Free Press. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684863650. Illustrated by The Author. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr. , James C. Kelly, & Nelson D. Lankford. 329 pages. hardcover. keywords: History. DESCRIPTION - Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs. In 1994, four tattered scrapbooks were found in a Connecticut bank vault, yielding a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's greatest national drama. These scrapbooks -- plus a five-thousand-page illustrated memoir that was also discovered -- are the life's achievement of a long-forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden. Sneden enlisted in the Union army after the fall of Fort Sumter. As a soldier and mapmaker, he witnessed many of the most famous battles of the war. His map of the second battle of Bull Run offers a detailed firsthand account of this pivotal moment. Captured by the notorious Captain Mosby in 1863, Sneden spent most of the rest of the war as a prisoner at the infamous Andersonville prison camp. Sneden's chronicle is one of the richest descriptions of soldier life and the only fully illustrated eyewitness account of existence inside this notorious prison. inventory #28795. …

Hardcover. Condizione: fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr. James C. Kelly, and Nelson D. Lankford priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire. ; 10 1/4 x 10 1/4"; 263 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: DJ Fine. 2nd Printing. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Full number line, 1st Printing. Black boards, near pristine, bright and sharp. As New. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket, clean and crisp. As New. Book is firm in binding, full color reproductions of original art work throughout. 263 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Color Plates; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 263 pages. Illustrated by Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Good paperback. Writing on inside of front cover. Covers laminated. Sneden, Private Robert Knox (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover in dust jacket, 9 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches, 329 pages, illustrated notes, index, Ex library, I have removed the clear plastic jacket and spine label. Jacket and binding have only slight wear. . Apart from typical library marks, including Discard stamp, the pages are clean. I will not ship this book overseas.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. An illustrated memoir of a Civil War soldier. Mild wear at the edges. A very good or better copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 3rd Printing; dj in mylar (price unclipped); A Union private and mapmaker who became a prisoner of war and was sent to notorious Andersonville military prison where he kept a diary and illustrated what he saw. Found to be one of the most detailed descriptons ever written of soldier life in the Civil War. Color & b&w (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd. 329pp, with index, a civil war odyssey, colorful illustrations, nine chapters, very good condition, andersonville prison, U.S. Steamer Varuna, Headquarters of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman. Private Robert Knox Sneden (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NYC: Free Press, 2000. 1st edition, NF/NF. Illustrated throughout in color by the author. Book and dust jacket have some light edge & corner wear (DJ is price-clipped). This memoir was originally 5,000 pages long. Includes notes on sources, editorial methods and index. Knox fought in some early Civil War battles (Peninsula and 2nd Bull Run) and was then captured and spent the rest of the war in the notorious and brutal Andersonville prison camp. Miraculously he survived. Very compelling text. Nice copy. RDN2. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Very large, heavy squarish book, smooth purplish red covers, spine lightly slanted, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 329 heavy glossy pages, small color-illustrations throughout. DJ glossy with sketch of huge battle on front, gold spine and top edges, praise on lavender back from John Jakes, James L. Robertson and others. Fine DJ/Good book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Stated First Printing. Scrapbooks filled with hundred of watercolors painted by a long-forgotten Union private were discovered in 1994 in a Connecticut bank vault. Herein is a collection of these paintings along with the artist's own powerful text giving you a close-up and personal glimpse as to what it was like to be a soldier on and off the battlefield. 329 pages including index. Color and B&W illustrations. No price on dust jacket, but stated first printing on the copyright page. Fantastic copy. Private Robert Know Sneden (illustratore).…