Civil War Etchings

Paperback, 96 pgs. “Civil War Etchings” is a treasury of 42 rare and valuable plates made from the famed Civil War-era illustrator's on-the-spot sketches of day-to-day lives of Union soldiers: dress, sleeping arrangements, marches, picket duty, pastimes, etc. Plates are accompanied by Edwin Forbes's simple, factual commentaries on each scene, later amplified by William Forrest Dawson, an army historian.