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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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mount a horse, and with their prisoners Mosbyand his cavalcade gallojjcd safely back to their lines. It was with similar strokes, original in conception anddaring in execution, that INIosby kept thousands of Federalcavalry and infantry away from much-needed service at thefront. After he became well established as a ))artisan ranger,his men were never organized as a tactical fighting body, andnever had, as with other troops, an established camp. Throughhis trusty lieutenants, the call would be sent out for a desig-nated nnm))er of men for INIosby. This was the most defi-nite information as to their mission that these volunteers everreceived. In fact, they always moved out with sealed orders,but at the appointed time and place the rangers would assembleA\itIiont fail. That INIosby wanted them was sulHcient. Many of these Tuen were members of regular cavalry regi-ments home on furlough, others were farmers who had beenduly enlisted in the rangei-s, and were always subject to call, (1781
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COPVRiGHT, , REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. PROTECTION AGAINST THE JAYHAWKERS OF LOUISIANA The lookout tower in the midst of this Federal cavalry cam)) in the northwest part of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,is a compliment to the jaj^hawkers—soldiers not affiliated with any command—and nondescript guerillabands which infested this region along the banks of the Mississippi. Here the land is so level that lookouttowers were built wherever a command stopped for more than a few hours. The soldiers found it safer alsoto clear away the Ijrusli and obstructing trees for several hundred yards on all sides of their camps, in orderto prevent the roving Confederate sharpshooters from creeping up and jiicking off a sentry, or having a shotat an officer. The guerilla bands along the Mississippi even had some pieces of ordnance, and used toamuse themselves by dropping shells on the Union tin-clad gunboats from lofty and distant bluffs. (G-lCl

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