Bassham, Ben L.

Conrad Wise Chapman, Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy.

Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Conrad Wise Chapman [1842 - 1910] painted and sketched while on duty as a Confederate soldier, and served in three theaters of war. He painted a series of 31 paintings of Charleston and other Civil War related pictures. He also wrote his memoirs which contain a description of camp life, first battle and his weeks in Confederate hospitals. This book frames his work in context of Civil War historical record, Southern and American art.

4to, 328pp, brown cloth covers, dark gilt title on spine, original dj blue with white title on sp, color image on front. Fine. Item #27611

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