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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e Palestine lie the Reveillie, tlie Irene, the Belle Peoria (a famous Mississippi boat from St. Louis), and lastthe Rob Roy —all discharging their tons of freight, paid for by the Government at war-time prices. On the snow-covered wharf arepiled barrels of whiskey (the standard brand familiarly known as Cincinnati rot-gut, distilled for the Governments own use), whilethe roustabouts are rolling ashore barrels of sugar and hogsheads of molasses to be mixed with the coffee which weary soldiers are tobrew for themselves in the field. There are thousands of barrels of flour still to be unloaded. In symmetrical piles lie myriad boxeseach stencilled Pilot bread from U. S. Government Bakery, Evansville, Ind. Many an old Confederate knew the taste of this hard-tack and had to depend upon capturing a supply of it to stay his hunger. Confederate prisoners in their confinement watched manysuch scenes as this, wondering what newcomers would be added to their numbers during the ensuing campaign.
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CONFEDERATES WHO FOUGHT THE GUNS AT STONES RIVER The Washington Artillery, mustered in at New Orleans, was one of the crack military organizations of the Confederac3. In this rarepicture a Confederate photographer has caught a jolly group of them, confident and care-free, whiiing away the hours in camp.The photograph was taken the year before the battle of Stones River. Ere that conflict the youngsters had received their baptismof fire at Shiloh and had acquitted themselves like men. Their gallant force was attached to Andersons First Brigade and then toGeneral Samuel Joness Corps, of Braggs army. .At the battle of Stones River they fought in Breckinridges division of HardeesCorps. It was they who made the daring rush to plant their batteries on the hill, and suffered so severely from the galling fire of

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