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Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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command of Kirby Smith, had just united with the armyof Beauregard. It was this that caused the cheering and de-termined Beauregard to make another attack on the Henryplateau. The Union men had fought valiantly in this, their firstbattle, untrained and unused to warfare as they were; theyhad braved the hail of lead and of bursting shells; they hadwitnessed their comrades, their friends, and neighbors fall attheir feet to rise no more. They nevertheless rejoiced in theirsuccess. Bid with the long march and the five hours fightingin the scorching July sun they were weary to exhaustion, andwhen they saw the Confederates again approaching, reen-forced with fresh troops, their courage failed and they began toretreat down the hill. With waving colors the Confederatespressed on, opening a volley of musketry on the retreatingFederals, and following it with another and another. In vain McDowell and his officers attempted to rally hispanic-stricken men and re-form his lines. Only the regulars,
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THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIER AS HE REALLY LOOKED AND MARCHED There is nothing to suggest military brilliancy about this squad. Attitudes are as prosaic as uniforms are unpicturesque. The onlyman standing with military correctness is the officer at the left-hand end. But this was the material out of which was developed thesoldier who could average sixteen miles a day for weeks on end, and do, on occasion, his thirty miles through Virginia mud and Lis fortymiles over a hard Pennsylvania highway. Sixteen miles a day does not seem far to a single pedestrian, but marching with a regimentbears but little relation to a solitary stroll along a sunny road. It is a far different matter to trudge along carrying a heavy burden,choked by the dust kicked up by hundreds of men tramping along in front, and sweltering in the sun—or trudge still more drearilyalong in a pelting rain which added pounds to a soaked and clinging uniform, and caused the soldiers to slip and stagger in the mud. , , ^tA iJIJBKyJf

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