The Wilderness Campaign
Edwin Forbes (1839-1895)
General Grant and staff on the road
from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania
Courthouse, Virginia May 7, 1864
Graphite on paper
Prints & Photographs Division
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Edwin Forbes, was recognized as one of the leading
Civil War sketch artists who drew the war for Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper from 1862 1864. He could render a scene quickly and
accurately, with an artist's eye for composition and a reporter's
instinct for human interest. At a time when the shutter speed
of cameras was too slow to capture action, the public's only glimpse
of the action came from the sketch artists like Forbes and Alfred
and William Waud.
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