1863: The continuing saga of a Yankee school teacher in the Union Army: Young Freeman Colby joined the 39th Massachusetts Regiment in search of “better returns,” but now he just wants to survive the war and return home to his friends & family in New England! Marching deeper into the war-torn heart of Virginia, he crosses paths with countless fellow survivors — widows, poets, volunteer nurses, refugee children, ragged soldiers, brave mothers striving to deliver their families from slavery… This wide-ranging graphic novel weaves together their stories with Colby’s actual letters home, laying bare the day-to-day human struggles that shaped one of the most consequential years in American history.
Freeman Colby: From Primary Sources to Comics-Here’s a gallery of some Civil War primary sources & resulting comics pages from the Freeman Colby series: Vol. 1: The Diary Freeman Colby Vol. 1 started out as a (more or less) direct visual interpretation of Colby’s written “diary” (click any image to view @ full size): Adding Visual Reference Where Colby provides no […]
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