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Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil War for his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes. [1]
American Civil War portal; List of American Civil War generals (Union) John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846, Ballantine Books, New York, 1994. Water Color and Drawings by Brevet Maj. Gen. Truman Seymour, Exhibition Catalog, United States Military Academy, Kent Ahrens, 1974. The Drawings and Watercolors by Truman Seymour, organized by the Everhart ...
Echoes of Glory: Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1992. ISBN 0-8094-8858-2. Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 0-684-84944-5. Esposito, Vincent J. West Point Atlas of American Wars. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1959. OCLC 5890637.
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After the Civil War, he became a professor of English literature, mathematics and drawing at the University of Missouri. He was also a professor of civil engineering, applied mathematics, and engineering drawing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (1872–1877). [2] His original watercolors are now privately owned.
Illustration of John, a Virginia blacksmith, from a later edition of Hospital Sketches. Hospital Sketches (1863) is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown.
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The name and technique come from the leather holsters used by the cavalry of both the United States Army and the Confederate States Army, during the Civil War.The pistol was in a covered holster carried high on the cavalryman's right side, but was placed butt-forward for crossdrawing by the left hand.