Having finished the Sand Creek book, I’m now working with Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, an awesome artist and all-around weird and wonderful guy, on a graphic history of the Civil War for Hill and Wang. It’s an odd project for a variety of reasons, some of which I may detail in later posts. For now, though, I wanted to put up a sample page for your viewing pleasure.

The central conceit of the book is that it’s object driven. Each chapter uses an object — the flag that flew over Ft. Sumter, the writ of habeas corpus issued in the Merryman case, a leg iron that once bound a contraband slave, just to name a few examples — to open up a story from the war. In the case of the illustration above, the chapter is about the impact of the Minié ball on battlefield tactics, grand strategy, and, as the image indicates, medical practices.