The current issue of
National Geographic has an interesting article about Civil War sketch artists. The article is written by Harry Katz, who with co-author Vincent Virga, has published a new book, Civil War Sketch Book: Drawings from the Battlefront. I have written about sketch artists in my book, Civil War Journalism, which will be published later this year. As Katz notes, the stories of the dedicated sketch artists, which included the likes of Alfred Waud (pictured above), Edwin Forbes, Henry Lovie, and Winslow Homer, have largely gone overlooked. Fortunately, that is changing.
