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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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III this room, nearly a hundred years before, the red-coated officers of His Britannic Majestys troops had gathered at the longmahogany table, which, with the glittering sideboards and the old portraits, had furnished the apartment. They were unbiddenguests and were invaders. It was with enforced courtesy that the lady of the house, whose husband and two sons were wearingthe blue and buff of the Continental Army, received them. And now, in 1865, this ladys descendents, the heirs to the old mansion,have been forced to move bj-another invasion that brought home to them the stem decrees of war. The two maiden ladies of proudlineage had been forced in the early stages of the siege to move their belongings to a safer place. The house had been strippedof furnishings; against the noble old walls the Federal guns had knocked for admittance, presenting no billet of lodgment with asweeping bow, but rudely bursting in. After the war was over, its occupants came back; but still, if you should vis

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