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Edwin A. Forbes was born in 1839, in New York City, New York, the son of a carpenter, Joseph C. Forbes, and his wife Ann Douglass.
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Excerpt from The Army Sketch Book: An Artist's Story of the War We descended the hill to the river, and crossing on the pontoons, were soon on our way towards the front. We passed through the wagon-camps on a flat near the river, and ascending a gentle slope were soon in the dense woods beyond. Darkness had now fallen, and the din of the conflict increased, though we concluded that the enemy's advance had been checked, as the reports of firing came no nearer. Sounds rose and fell as the opposing forces changed position, coming clearly and distinctly from a wooded ridge but with muffled tone from the valleys. Suddenly there came a burst of artillery, and a tremendous roar continued for one hour. Then word was received that the enemy's advance had been checked. Suddenly we met straggling parties of demoralized troops hurrying towards the rear, and found on inquiry that the Eleventh Corps, holding the right flank of our army, had been surprised and put to rout by Stonewall Jackson, who had been making one of his famous forced marches for the purpose. These men were panic-stricken, rushing about at random with no directness of movement, their only thought being to get away from the bullets. Guards were thrown out on both sides of the road to put an end to the disgraceful confusion, and when the way was cleared we pushed forward toward the firing. I shall never forget the scene at this point, at nine o'clock. Fires were blazing on every side, which, with the pine trees that had been ignited, so lit up the road that objects were as discernible as in the day; and surging through it all was a 'mass of earnest, determined men who were intent only on reaching the line of battle where they could be of service to their struggling comrades. Marching hurriedly forward, they soon came to a road leading from Ely's Ford to Chancellorsville, and deploying to right and left the lines were very shortly in such a position that the damage done by Jackson's masterly surprise was almost made good, although a last desperate attempt was made at eleven o'clock to take pos session of a plateau surrounding the Chancellorsville House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Edwin A. Forbes was born in 1839, in New York City, New York, the son of a carpenter, Joseph C. Forbes, and his wife Ann Douglass.
Forbes began the study of art at the age of eighteen, continuing after 1859 under the tutelage of Arthur F. Tait. At first he concentrated upon animal painting, but later extended his field to genre and landscape.
In 1861 Forbes was engaged to accompany the Army of the Potomac as staff artist for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in which his sketches of camp life and battle-fields appeared throughout the Civil War. The habit of quick and trenchant drawing from life which he developed during his years at the front influenced all his later production, and the sketches themselves were his main stock in trade for the rest of his life.
Upon his return to New York in 1865 the best of these, "Lull in the Fight, " painted from a drawing of the Battle of the Wilderness, was exhibited at the National Academy in New York and at the Boston Athenaeum.
In 1876 copperplate etchings from his war sketches were published as Life Studies of the Great Army. The original prints were bought by General William T. Sherman, and were placed in his office in the War Department in Washington.
In 1884 a bill was introduced in Congress providing for the purchase and preservation in the government archives of the Forbes Historical Collection, which contained the original drawings made during the war, but the bill was defeated. Forbes continued to draw upon his war experiences for illustrations for children’s histories.
He contributed ninety-six etchings to General William T. Sherman, his Life and Battles, Mostly in One Syllable Words (1886), written by his wife, Ida B. Forhes; ninety-five to Josephine Pollard’s Our Naval Heroes in Words of Easy Syllables (1886); and eighty-two to H. W. Pierson’s Life and Battles of Napoleon Bonaparte: In Words of One Syllable (1887). These were hastily and crudely produced, and of an even merit with the texts which they illustrated.
Eventually Forbes wrote his own reminiscences, Thirty Years After, An Artist’s Story of the Great War (1891), which were chatty and entertaining, but written solely as a vehicle for his remaining sketches. He did not as a rule bite his own plates, and both his etchings and paintings are more interesting for the vigor of their drawing than for the nicety of their execution.
A few years before his death he suffered a paralysis of his right side, and thereafter painted and wrote with his left hand. Edwin A. Forbes died on March 6, 1895, at his residence on Lenox Road, Flatbush, New York.
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Edwin A. Forbes was a member of the French Etching Club, and in 1877 was elected honorary member of the London Etching Club.