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Richmond after the Evacuation Fire (print)
 
Price: $30.00
During the Civil War, Robert Knox Sneden (1832–1918), a native of Nova Scotia, served the Union in the Third Army Corps as a topographical engineer. In nearly 400 wartime watercolor sketches, he used his skills as an architectural draftsman to record the landscape of Virginia and the violent changes wrought on it by the two armies. Although some three dozen of Sneden's sketches were engraved for the Battles and Leaders of the Civil War series, the rest, assembled in four scrapbooks, dropped from sight until 1993, when they were acquired by the Virginia Historical Society.
This sketch depicts Richmond after the fire on the night of April 2, 1865, which was set by the fleeing Confederates to prevent Union forces from seizing stores housed in warehouses. By the time he rendered this sketch, Robert Sneden, suffering from kidney disease and rheumatism contracted during imprisonment in Libby Prison and Andersonville, had been exchanged and discharged from the Union Army.
Reproduction of the original watercolor. Print measures 11" x 14".
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