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watercolor maps and drawings of battlefields, camps, war scenes and prisons.
After being stored away unseen for most of a century, this rich trove of Civil War history has been brought together in what some historians call one of the most important memoirs of the war ever produced. Illustrated by Private Sneden’s marvelous watercolors, the book, titled “Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey,” was edited by two Virginia Historical Society scholars and published late last year.
The story of the Union soldier’* journey to Woodville begins with his capture by Mosby’s Rangers near Brandy Station, in Culpeper County, where the Union army had been camped. Left behind when the army marched south to meet Gen. Robert E. Lee’s
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