Thirty Years After An Artist's Memoir of the Civil War

Edwin Forbe's Thirty Years After is surely one of the most remarkable firsthand accounts of the Civil War ever published. Originally issued in 1890--thus the title--the lavish, oversized book is both a pictorial and a written record of the daily experience of war. It contains hundreds of etchings of Civil War scenes along with twenty equestrian portraits of Union generals such as Grant, Sherman, McClellan, and Custer, reproduced from oil paintings.Forbes, Edwin is the author of 'Thirty Years After An Artist's Memoir of the Civil War', published 1993 under ISBN 9780807118771 and ISBN 080711877X.