The Photographic History of the Civil War: Soldier life, secret serviceReview of Reviews Company, 1911 - United States Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with test by many special authorities. |
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... headquarters and within the Federal lines , at a thousand historic spots and moments , resulted entirely from the desire of the authorities to insure the strictest secrecy for their movements . Obviously , any commander was pretty much ...
... headquarters and within the Federal lines , at a thousand historic spots and moments , resulted entirely from the desire of the authorities to insure the strictest secrecy for their movements . Obviously , any commander was pretty much ...
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... headquarters . The scouts generally passed as foragers within their own lines , always coming in with vegetables , poultry , and the like , to preserve their incognito . WILLIAM their cause and all that it comprised . The. SCOUTS AND ...
... headquarters . The scouts generally passed as foragers within their own lines , always coming in with vegetables , poultry , and the like , to preserve their incognito . WILLIAM their cause and all that it comprised . The. SCOUTS AND ...
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... headquarters and was utilized by the Government for photographing maps and other articles of that kind which were prepared by the secret service . I have quite a number of his views which were made at that time . " These negatives ...
... headquarters and was utilized by the Government for photographing maps and other articles of that kind which were prepared by the secret service . I have quite a number of his views which were made at that time . " These negatives ...
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... million men in the field few knew that any photographs were being taken . These volumes will be the first introduction of many a veteran to the photography of fifty years before . N.Y. H. HEADQUARTERS . COPYRIGHT , 1911 , PATRIOT PUB.
... million men in the field few knew that any photographs were being taken . These volumes will be the first introduction of many a veteran to the photography of fifty years before . N.Y. H. HEADQUARTERS . COPYRIGHT , 1911 , PATRIOT PUB.
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Francis Trevelyan Miller Robert Sampson Lanier. N.Y. H. HEADQUARTERS . COPYRIGHT , 1911 , PATRIOT PUB . CO THE BÊTE NOIR OF THE SECRET SERVICE At the headquarters of the New York Herald in the field , August , 1863 , sit some of the men ...
Francis Trevelyan Miller Robert Sampson Lanier. N.Y. H. HEADQUARTERS . COPYRIGHT , 1911 , PATRIOT PUB . CO THE BÊTE NOIR OF THE SECRET SERVICE At the headquarters of the New York Herald in the field , August , 1863 , sit some of the men ...
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Page 118 - Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died.
Page 122 - So let the wide world wag as it will, We'll be gay and happy still." The contrast between the sentiment of the song and the environment of the column was sufficiently striking.
Page 326 - ... movements are developed, and shall only fear an attack on my right, which I shall make every preparation for guarding against and resisting.
Page 128 - ... that body of incomparable infantry, the Army of Northern Virginia, which for four years carried the revolt on its bayonets, opposing a constant front to the mighty concentration of power brought against it ; which, receiving terrible blows, did not fail to give the like ; and which, vital in all its parts, died only with its annihilation.
Page 5 - The photographic history of the Civil war . . . Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor-in-chief; Robert S. Lanier, managing editor. Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities.
Page 328 - I was with General Meade near General Sickles, whose troops seemed very badly disposed on that part of the field. At my suggestion, General Meade sent me to the left to examine the condition of affairs, and I continued on till I reached Little Round Top. There were no troops on it and it was used as a signal station. I saw that this was the key of the whole position, and that our troops in the woods in front of it could not see the ground in front of them, so that the enemy would come upon them before...