The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, Civil, Military, Naval and Domestic ... from the Time of the Memorable Toast of Andrew Jackson--"The Federal Union; it Must be Preserved!" ... to the Assassination of President Lincoln, and the End of the War: With Famous Words and Deeds of Woman, Sanitary and Hospital Scenes, Prison Experiences, &c

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W.E. Bliss & Company, 1873 - United States - 705 pages
 

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Contents

PORTRAIT OF MRS LINCOLN
32
ROMANTIC ADVENTURE
33
34
35
INTERCEDING FOR HER FATHER
44
GODS FLAG
45
PORTRAIT OF R M T HUNTER PAGE 134 140 141
46
PORTRAIT OF GEN PHILIP SHERIDAN
47
LENGTH OF THE WAR 143 144
48
PAGE
49
ACCOMMODATING HIMSELF TO CIRCUMSTANCES ILLUMINATED INITIAL LETTER 152
51
HOW DOES HE GROW EM?
52
LOVE AND PATRIOTISM
53
IRAS WIfe and his BrEECHES
54
FATE OF A Coward WAR 155 157 158 162 165 168
55
FANNNIE and Nellie 170
56
CAREER OF FRANK HENDERSON 178
57
PORTRAIT OF LIEUT GEN Ulysses S Grant 177
58
EFFECT OF CRINOLINE
61
TENDERNESS OF THE PRESIDENT 73 ILLUMINATED INITIAL LETTER 74 RALLYINg around the FLAG 75 PORTRAIT OF GEN GEO H TH...
63
QUITE THE YOUNGEST RECRUIT
64
DRAFTING SCENE
65
EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY
66
FIGHTIN OBER A BONE
67
BOUNTY Jumper Captured by a Dog
68
TENDER IN YEARS BUT PATRIOTIC
69
SNAKED AWAY AND DRUMMED
70
ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART III Bombardment of Fort Sumter
72
COURTESIES OF PICKET LIFE 98 PORTRAIT Of Gen A Sidney Johnston WON HIS WAGER PORTRAIT OF GEN LONGSTREET UNCOMFOR...
113
FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE
114
PORTRAIT OF COL ELLSWORTH
115
BULL RUN Battlefield
116
NEUTRAL Cornfield Portrait of GEN J E JOHNSTON CLIMBING THE MOUNTAINS UNION BUSHWHACKERS and Rebel Cavalry
120
PORTRAIT OF MAJ GEN MCPHERSON
121
PORTRAit of Gen Barksdale
122
PORTRAIT OF GEN DAVID HUNTER
123
UNION AND REBEL PICKETS
124
PORTRAIT OF GEN A E BURNSIDE
125
PORTRAIT OF J C BRECKINRIDGE 41 STATING THE EXACT ALTERNATIVE
126
PORTRAIT OF ALBERT PIKE
127
INTREPID CONDUCT BOB THE SPUNKY DRymmer Boy
129
PORTRAIT OF GEN H W SLOCUM
130
PORTRAIT OF Gov H A WISE
131
CAPT TILDENS LUCKY ESCAPE As Good As A Captured Gun PORTRAIT OF GEN J C PEMBERTON
132
PORTRAIT OF GEN L POLK
135
PLEASANT HOAX ALL ROUND
150
WRECK OF THE MONITOR
151
PORTRAIT OF CAPT J A WINSLOW
152
PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL A H FOOTE
153
PICTORIAL HUMORS OF THE WAR
157
PORTRAIT OF SECRETARY WELLES
158
PORTRAIT OF COM BAILEY
159
PORTRAIT OF CAPT SEMMES
160
BUCHANANs Sword Yielded
161
RIVER Devils for Carrying on War GUNBOAT FIGHT AT FORT PILLOW
162
THE MERRIMAC
163
FLEET OF Gunboats in the James River
165
FARRAGUT Lashed to the Mast
166
GUNBOAt Kansas
167
ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART V VARIETIES OF THE WAR ILLUMINATED INITIAL Letter
169
MARK TIME
171
PORTRAIT OF GEN SHERMAN
172
SENTRYS ENCOUNTER WITH A REGULAR
173
HALTING EFFECT OF THE ARDENT
174
PORTRAIT OF SECRETARY CHASE COL OWENS SQUAD DRILL PORTRAIT OF GEN MCCLELLAN
177
PORTRAIT OF GEN ROSECRANS
178
PORTRAIT OF GEN J C DAVIS
179
ENCOUNTER between Nelson and Davis
180
PORTRAIT OF GEN HARDEE GEN BUTLERS HEADQUARTERS WHARS DAT Nigger
185
MILITARY ETIQUETTE
190
ORDERS ON THE BATTLEFIELD
191
PORTRAIT OF GEN N P BANKS
192
ILLUSTRATED PLATE FOR PART VI COLORED SOLDIERS
193
ILLUMINATED INITIAL LETTER
194
SWAMP ANGEL
195
SANITARY COMMISSION
196
WICKED JOKE UPON A POSTMASTER
197
RELAY HOUSE
198
ARMY KITCHEN
199
SWEARING IN A COOK
200
MILKING THE COW
201
SERGEANT DAVISS TENDER BEEF
202
TELEGRAPH STATION
212
LIEUT s PERFUMED Breath
213
PAGE
214
FIELD CARRIAGES DISPENSED WITH
215
QUESTION IN INFANTRY PRACTICE
216
PORTRAIT OF JOHN H MORGAN
217
NO BUSINESS WID A GUN
218
SIGNALLING
221
222
222
INDIAN MOUND CHATTANOOGA
223
FLIGHT FROM THE SHENANDOAH
224
AUNT CHARLOTTE THE OLD Cook
225
BRIDGE ACROSS PLATTE CREEK
226
FOUR LEGged Messenger proved Disloyal 227 INFLATING THE PONTOON LOYAL
227
SADDLING TO SUIT THE ROUTE
229
CALIFORNIA JOE 81 PORTRAIT OF GEN FELIX K ZOLLICOFFER 82 PORTRAIT OF GEN JOHN C FREMONT GOING IN QUEST OF SATISF...
236
HEADQUARTERS OF GEN BURNSIDE
255
MONUMENT AT STONE RIVER
257
PROOF AGAINST FEDERAL Gallantry
258
OLD HANNAH
259
FAMILIAR SOLDIER SCENES HOUSEKEEPING
260
PAGE
261
MOSE BRYAN
262
SOLDIERS Graves
263
MILITARY PRISON AT Salisbury
264
MISS LEE AND THE YANKEE Corporal
265
PORTRAIT of Gen Lyon
266
PORTRAIT OF MAJOR ZAGONYI
267
MRS BROWNELL THE HEROINE PORTRAIT OF GEN POPE 96 PORTRAIT OF GEN SAXTON
268
PORTRAIT OF GEN BEN MCCULLOCH
269
JERKY AND GEN THOMAS SPY GLASS
270
PORTRAIT OF GEN MEADE
271
CARVING HIS OWN HEADBOARD
272
WICKEDNESS OF WOMAN
273
PORTRAIT OF BELL BOYD
274
OLD LADIES CONVERSINg about Gen Bragg
275
GEN BUTLER AS A YOUNG Lawyer
276
RAILROAD DEPOT Atlanta Ga
277
ALAS POOR SOLDIER
278
PORTRAIT OF GOV ANDREW MASS
279
ENJOYING NEGRO HOSPITALITY
280
FRANKIE Bragg
281
A YOUNG WOMAN SHOOTS A Guerrilla
282
MAJOR B EN ROUTE WITH THE WIDOW
283
PORTRAIT OF GOV CURTIN Pa
284
806
307
320
320
AHEAD OF HIS TROOPS
346
Surrender of Gen Lee
347
RAKING A TRAitor
351
NAVAL PEACEMAKER 143 PORTRAIT OF LIEUT WORDEN 144 CHARGE CHESTER CHARGE 145 PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL Dupont 146 1...
353
LIGHTHOUSE AT FORT Morgan
361
PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL PORTER 149 BEFORE VICKSBURG
362
PART FIFTH
401
401
402
414
414
COMMISSARY AND RATIONS FINANCE AND CURRENCY THE PRESS
443
444
444
477
477
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506
PART SEVENTH
517
ILLUMINATED INITIAL Letter 232 PORTRAIT OF MISS BROWNLOW 233 BEAUTIFul but Dead
518
THAT IS MY BROTHER
519
PORTRAIT OF ALEX H STEPHENS 237 ELIZABETH COMSTOCK WITH DYING SOLDIERS 238 DALLIANCE AND TREACHERY
531
PORTRAIT OF GOV MORGAN N Y 240 AMOURS and Fancies of THE CAMP
536
SWEET SEVENTEEN OVERHAULING SECESSIONISTS
541
CASTLE THUNDER
543
LOYALTY IN VIRGINIA
551
PORTRAIT OF MRS GEN GRANT 251 PORTRAIT OF GEN TILGHMAN 252 GEN LANDER AND HIS BIBLE
558
PART EIGHTH
633
LIST OF THE PUBLIC VESSELS EMPLOYED IN THE WAR AND CONSULTED
681
INDEX TO THE LEADING ANECDOTES
691
PORTRAIT OF MRS STEPHEN A Douglas 43 PORTRAIT OF CHARLES J FAULKNER 121 125
692
MISTOOK THE GUNS
693
536
694
126
696
358
698
127
700
362
701
130
704

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TitleThe Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, Civil, Military, Naval and Domestic ... from the Time of the Memorable Toast of Andrew Jackson--"The Federal Union; it Must be Preserved!" ... to the Assassination of President Lincoln, and the End of the War: With Famous ...
AuthorRichard Miller Devens
PublisherW.E. Bliss & Company, 1873
Original fromthe University of Virginia
Digitized4 May 2010
Length705 pages
  
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