Civil War Etchings (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Treasury of 42 rare and valuable plates made from 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 accompanied by Forbes's simple, factual commentaries on each scene, later amplified by William Forrest Dawson, an army historian.