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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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Coityright bfj Patriot Pub. Co. A GRIM CAPTURE The Second and Sixtli Corps of the Federal Army repelled a desperate attack of General Magruder at Sav-age Station on June ^29th. The next day they disappeared, plunging into the depths of White Oak Swamp,leaving only the brave medical officers behind, doing what they could to relieve the sufferings of the menthat had to be abandoned. Here we see them at work upon the wounded, who have been gathered fromthe field. Nothing but the strict arrest of the stern sergeant Death can save these men from cajiture, andwhen the Confederates occupied Savages Station on the morning of June .50th, twenty-five hundred sickand wounded men and their medical attendants became prisoners of war. The Confederate hospital facil-ities were already taxed to their full capacity in caring for Lees wounded, and most of these men wereconfronted on that day with the prospect of lingering for months in the military prisons of the South. Thebrave .soldiers lying helples

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