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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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Court House, of which this engagement wasthe close, the Union army lost about fifteen thousand. With sympathy for the last moments of eachsoldier, such as Robert Burns Wilson has put into his poem opposite, the horror of war becomes alltoo vivid. Ewells attack illustrates the sudden facing of death that may come to every soldier.The desperate fighting about Spotsylvania had been prolonged ten days and more, when General Leethought the Union army was withdrawing to his right. To ascertain whether this was true hedirected Ewell to feel out the Federal position. After a long detour through roads nearly impassable,Fwell came upon the enemy ready to receive him. The object of his movement thus accomplished,he prepared to return, but found himself fiercely attacked. It was necessary then to make a stand,for no effective fighting can be done in retreat. The late afternoon and the early evening were filledwith the fierce encounter. Only when darkness came was Ewell able in safety to withdraw.
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WHER1. IU(,1.F.S ( AI.I. AMI KIFLES GLEAM Ilir men of llic 74th New York (nfantry, as they drill in their camp .if 1861, exemplify tin- martial splendor of Cutlers poem; norwas ils hero animated by a more unflinching resolve than they. Tin- regiments record tells the story It was organized in NewYork ami till August 20th was stationed at (amp Scott, on Staten Island, as the lift 11 in Sickles Kxeclsior Brigade. Barely amonth after Hull Run, the first overwhelming Federal defeat, this regiment was on its way to Washington. The fall of the year, asthe picture shows, was spent in the constant marching and drilling by which McClellan forged that fighting instrument known tofame as the Army of tin- Potomac The volunteers were indeed where bugles called ami rifles gleamed, hut they were impatient forservice on the great hot plain to hear the dissonant cries of triumph and dismay. .Marching about under the leafless trees over(7S)

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