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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Look at Captain RandolphBarton, of another Virginia regiment. He is living to-day(1911) with just about one dozen scars on his body. He wouldbe wounded; get well; return to duty, and in the very next bat-tle be shot again! Look at that gallant old soldier, GeneralEwell. Like his brave foeman, General Sickles, he has lost hisleg, but that cannot keep him home; he continues to commandone of Lees corps to the very end at Appomattox. Look atColonel Snowden Andrews of Maryland. At Cedar Moun-tain, in August, 18G2, a shell literally nearly cut him in two;but by a miracle he did not die; and in June, 1863, there he isagain commanding his artillery battalion! He is bowedcrooked by that awful wound; he cannot stand upright anymore, but still he can fight like a lion. As you walk through the camps, you will see many of themen busily polishing their muskets and their bayonets withwood ashes well moistened. Bright muskets and tattereduniforms went together in the Army of Northern Virginia. (1261
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CONFEDERATES WHO SERVED THE GUNS MEMBERS OF THE FAMOUS WASHINGTON ARTILLERY OF NEW ORLEANS The young men of the cities and towns very generally chose the artillery branch of the service for enlistment;thus, New Orleans sent five batteries, fully equipped, into the field—the famous Washington Artillery—besides some other batteries; and the city of Richmond, which furnished but one regiment of infantry and afew separate companies, contributed no less than eight or ten full batteries. Few of the minor towns butclaimed at least one. The grade of intelligence of the personnel was rather exceptionally high, so that theartillery came in time to attain cjuite a respectable degree of efficiency, especially after the objectionable sys-tem under which each battery was attached to an infantry brigade, subject to the orders of its commander, wasabolished and the battery units became organized into battalions and corps commanded by officers of theirown arm. The Confederate artillery arm was les

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