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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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NOT IN ANGER, NOT IX PRIDE Dedication of First Hull Run Monument, June 10, 1865 A little more than a month before Lowell read his lofty ode fur the sonsof Harvard who had fallen in the Civil War, the group here preserved 1>.\ the camera assembled to do honor to the dear martyrs whofell in the first great battle of the conflict The site was on the hillside in front of the stone house, at the spot where on the afternoonof .Inly.1. 1861, Ricketts and Griffin lost their batteries In thai battle the Federal forces had been entirely successful until earijin the afternoon. Then the !onfederates rallied on the brow of this hill, and the ground on which these nun and women are gathered was the see f a fierce struggle. The batteries wen- alternately captured by the Confederates and retaken by the Union forces. until the arrival of fresh troops in gray threw the Federal army into confusion and precipitated the panic of retreat. At the time
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TO HEROES LIVING AND DEAR MARTYRS DEAD of tins picture, four years later, both soldier and citizen arc standing calmly in the sunshine of the peaceful June day. Not in anger,net in priil. do they look into our faces. At tin-left Judge Olin, with the cane, is standing behind a boy inawhite shirt and quainttrousers who almost wistfully is gazing into the distance, as if the call of these mighty events had awakened in him a yearning forfame. To his left are Generals Thomas, Wilcox, Heintzelman, Dyer, ami other veterans of many a hard-fought field who can feel the march of conscious power of which Lowell speaks Ami the women with the flaring crinoline skirts ami old-fashioned sleevescertainly may join in the far-heard gratitude this celebration was to express. After fifty years their emotions are brought home lo the reader with the vividness of personal experience by the art of the photographer. iCutnilu 4.4.4.4.4-*** rv$ £0 Making earth feel more firm and air breathe braver:He proud! fo

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