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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-
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Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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States army as told in the followingpages and see what advance a few years had brought. While the medicalrecords of the Confederate Armies do not exist, we know that in thatservice, also, extraordinary results were accomplished. The picture which introduces these paragraphs has a significance whichcannot be over-emphasized. It is a section of the line of march of the grandreview of the armies of the United States, held in Washington May 23-24»18G5. Occupying a place of honor among the marching thousands areambulances. When before could an army have dared to boast of the pro-vision made for those incapacitated by disease or wounds? In the preparation of the prison sections, the author has consulted alarge number of the published accounts of experiences, has talked with dozensof one-time prisoners, and has corresponded with many more. The con-flicting accounts have been checked by the contemporary documents con-tained in the eight prison volumes of the Official Records of the Union and
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AID FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT—CHRISTIAN* COMMISSION The Christian Commission was second as a civilian agency ofrelief only to the Sanitary Commission. The scene above tellsits own story. The box numbered 1103 and addressed to theUnited States Christian Commission suggests how numerous wereits consignments to the front. The veteran who has lost a legis leaning on crutches furnished by the organization. He needhave no fear for his pension. They have helped him to keep hispapers straight. The basket on the mans arm suggests thecharitable nature of the enterprise, the women in the doorwayand on the porch indicate the feminine interest in it, and theecclesiastical garb of one or two of the crowdsuggests its religious nature. True heroes,some of these men wTho labored for theSanitary Commission and Christian Com-mission to counteract the awful effects ofthe madness which sets men to killing oneanother. In March, 1865, General Terry hadinstituted a contraband camp where thecolored refugees

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