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After The Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Stedman by Jim Dan Hill came up in a discussion on this board, I ordered it; it arrived yesterday, and I'm cheerfully digging in.
Dr. Stedman appears to have been very well-connected. Apparently his foreign language professor at Harvard was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and his professor at Harvard Medical School was Oliver Wendell Holmes (the elder). Perhaps even more amazing, it seems that Stedman's first publication of sketches (done under a pseudonym; it seems he worried about his medical reputation if he became known as a somewhat-satirical sketch artist) may have been lithographed in partnership with the just-starting-out Winslow Homer.
Example, courtesy Andy Hall's blog... Dr. Stedman attending "patients" during a battle drill on board the USS "Fornot" (actually USS Huron):
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(Stedman's humor and sketches remind me a bit of Thurber.)
Dr. Stedman appears to have been very well-connected. Apparently his foreign language professor at Harvard was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and his professor at Harvard Medical School was Oliver Wendell Holmes (the elder). Perhaps even more amazing, it seems that Stedman's first publication of sketches (done under a pseudonym; it seems he worried about his medical reputation if he became known as a somewhat-satirical sketch artist) may have been lithographed in partnership with the just-starting-out Winslow Homer.
Example, courtesy Andy Hall's blog... Dr. Stedman attending "patients" during a battle drill on board the USS "Fornot" (actually USS Huron):
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(Stedman's humor and sketches remind me a bit of Thurber.)
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