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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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seph Daniel James D. Hooker BUTTERFIELD Fessenden ON THE SPOT WHENCE HE DIRECTED HIS BATfLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS Antietam, and stunned at Chancellorsville by a cannon-ball which struck a pillar against which he was leaning. In September, 18G3,he was sent with the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps to reenforce Rosecrans at Chattanooga. On November 24th. in the battle amongthe clouds at the head of his new command, he led a charge against the Confederate artillery and infantry posted on Lookout Moun-tain. For his conduct on this occasion he was brevetted major-general in the regular army. He further distinguished himself underSherman at Dalton and Resaca, and in the attack on Atlanta. At his own request (July 30, 1864) he was placed on waiting ordersSeptember 28th, when he was put in command of the Northern Department. He retired from active service October 15, 1808, withthe full rank of major-general in the regular army. General Hooker died at Garden City, Long Island, New York, October 31, 1879.
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. THE ARMY OF GEORGIA—ON PARADE, GENERAL SLOCUM AT THE HEAD Wry different from the march through Georgia and the Carolinas was this magnificent parade of the Army ofGeorgia down Pennsylvania Avenue. In front ride General Slocum and his staff. Behind come the longstraight lines of men who proved the Confederacy a hollow shell with all of its fighting men at the front.Eagerly crowding close to the line of march are the citizens of Washington who had alternately clamored foraction, and shaken in their boots when the daring Confederate leaders pressed close to the Northern capital.Many a heartfelt prayer of thanks and relief was offered when mothers saw their boys march past, unscathedby the war and about to reenter civil life. Many a tear fell for those who could not be there to share the glory. (162) At Gaines Mill, Slocums Division of the Sixth (lorps was sentto the support of General Porter, and lost 2,021 out of less than8,000 present in the hot enga

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