Imagine being a young landscape painter sent to the American Civil War, not to fight but to draw it: that’s the story of Edwin Forbes, one of the best war artists of his time. In two years spent covering the Potomac Army, Forbes draw everything caught his attention with meticulous and fervent realism. From soldiers marching to bivouac moments and battlefields, his portraits made him win a gold medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and they’re now collected in this first volume dedicated to him in 96 illustrated pages, some of which have been colored for the very first time.