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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
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and beaten, backward reeled From a stubborn Meade and a barren field. I might tell how. but the day heroic.John Burns stood at his cottage-door,Looking down the village street.Where, in the shade of his peaceful vine,lie heard the low of his gathered kine.And felt their breath with incense sweet:Or I might say, when the sunset burnedThe old farm gable, he thought it turnedThe milk that fell like a babbling HoodInto the milk-pail, red as blood!Or how he fancied the bum of beesWere bullets buzzing among the trees.lint all such fanciful thoughts as theseWere strange to a practical man like Burns,Who minded only his own concerns,Troubled no more by fancies fineThan one of his calm-eyed, long-tailed kine.Quite old-fashioned and matter-of-fact.Slow to argue, but quick to act.That was the reason, as some folks say.He fought so well on that terrible day. And it was terrible. On the rightRaged for hours the heady fight, Thundered the batterys double bass,-Dilhcult music for men to face: (208)
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COPYRIGHT, 1911 PATRIOT PUB. CO. ■WITH HIS I.ONC BROWN RIFLE -.JOHN KIRNS OF (JETTYSIURO Tin old hero of Gettysburg sits hen- by his cottage. On one side is the old-fashioned gun Harte speaks of, mi the other, the crutcheshe needed after the battle. Sergeant George Eustice, of < ompany K. Seventh Wisconsin Volunteers, in Battles and Leaders describesJohn Burns action in the ranks of thai regiment : It must have been about noon when I saw a little old man coming up in the rear ofCompany F. In regard to the peculiarities of his dress. I remember he were a swallow-tailed coal with smooth brass buttons He bada rifle on his shoulder We boys began to poke fun at him as soon as he came amongst us, as we thought no civilian in his senses wouldshow himself in such a place. Bullets were flying thicker and Faster, and we hugged the ground about us as close as we could. Burns got behind ■■< Iree and surprised us all by not taking a double-quick to the rear He was as calm and collected

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