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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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■ fiwfyfrff^i II, PATRIOT PUB. CO. GENERAL ALFRED PLEASONTON AND HIS HORSE This is the horse wliich General Pleasonton brought with him from Utah in 1861. This charger carriedhim through the Peninsular campaign when he was a major in the Second Cavalry, commanding the regi-ment and covering the march of the Federal army to Yorktown, August 18 and 19, ISO^. It hore him atAntietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsvillc, where Pleasonton distinguished himself by checking theflank attack of the Confederates on the Federal right, and perhaps it stepi^ed forth a little more proudlywhen its owner was given command of the entire cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac on June 7,1863. This i)hotograph was taken at Falmouth, Va., in the latter year. General Pleasonton is riding thesame charger in the photograph of himself and Custer used to illustrate the battle of Gettysburg on page 237. Un/mwrnmrn. ar-l^iirjsw uf IGraiirrs mtii amu^rrs * •*- a/ ^^\ \^v property of the general, who paid %1

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