"Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs. Four tattered scrapbooks found in a Connecticut bank vault in 1994 yielded a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's great national drama. These scrapbooks--plus a five-thousand-page illustrated memoir that came to light later--are the life's achievement of a long-forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden.".

Chapter 1To the Front! 1 -- Chapter 2 Under Fire 35 -- Chapter 3 Confusion and Darkness: The Seven Days 67 -- Chapter 4 Enough of Terrible Fighting 101 -- Chapter 5 Captured 135 -- Chapter 6 "On to Richmond!" 161 -- Chapter 7 Prison Train to Andersonville 191 -- Chapter 8 This Hell on Earth 227 -- Chapter 9 Freedom 257.