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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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w from experience that the troops whichhad been hastily enlisted for the Southern cause were still ina very unprepared state. Most of the organizations participating in the first battleof the war Mere untried and undisciplined. A few regularcompanies and batteries made a leaven for the mass, andamong those Federal organizations that most distinguishedthemselves were Ricketts and Griffins regular field-batteries. About half-past two in the afternoon of July 21, 1861,these were ordered forward to the top of the Henry hill,where the battle of Bull Run was raging hottest. They wentwith a feeling that the regiments ordered to support them wereunreliable. For a time there was a lull in the battle. Butdanger was close at hand. No sooner had Ricketts taken uphis position than his men and horses began to fall under thewell-directed fire of concealed Confederate sharpshooters. Xofoe was visible, but death sped from behind fences, bushes,hedges, and knolls. The battery fought with desperate (IS)
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COPYRIGHT, 1911. REVIEW OF HEVIEWS CO, THE HENRY HOUSE—AFTER BULL RUN THE ARTILLERY CENTER OF THE FIRST CIVIL WAR RATTLE Thus stood the Henry house after the battle of Bull Run, on July 21, 1861. The building is no longer habi-table—though the white plaster remaining shows that the destroying cannonade had not brought fire in itstrain. At first not in the direct line of fire, the little home suddenly became the center of the flood-tide of thefirst real conflict of the Civil War when at two-thirty General McDowell sent forward Ricketts and Griffinsregular batteries. The former planted their guns within 1,500 yards of Captain (later Brigadier-General)John B. Imbodens Confederate batteries, which were stationed in a slight depression beyond. A terrificartillery duel at once ensued. Old Mrs. Henry, bedridden and abandoned by her relatives, lay alone in thehouse in an agony of terror till one of the first shots put an end to her life of suffering. The Thirty-thirdVirginia could restrai

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