John Edwin Forbes was a 23-year-old, classically trained artist when he was recruited in 1862 to join a corps of “special correspondents”—artists sent to report on the war through their illustrations. Forbes was hired by Frank Leslie to follow the Union Army and file his sketches for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. First in the Shenandoah …
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