Passing muster
Accuracy was crucial, so the most knowledgeable of viewers can enjoy Edwards's work without (study, ), he would send sketchcards of queries regarding aiguillettes or headstalls to officers to check they were correct. When he was working on , he invited a couple of troopers, fully accoutred, to stay with him at Buckholt so he could sketch them. Riding up a narrow lane, the site of a Civil War skirmish, one of them encountered the postman. Believing he'd seen a ghost, the unfortunate man threw his letters in the ditch and ran.
