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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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CAVALRY GUARDING THE ORANGE & ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD, 1804 Here it is apparent why the Northern generals found it necessary to detach large portions of their armies along their lines of communica-tion, to guard against, the impending raids of the Confederate cavalry. The destruction of the bridge in this photograph, part of Grantsline of communication in the Wilderness campaign, would have delayed his movements for days and have compelled him to detacha strong body to recapture the railroad, and another to rebuild the bridge. Hence this strong force detailed as a guard. Cavalry boots
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READY TO FORESTALL A CONFEDERATE RAID and sabers are visible in the photograph, with the revolver, distinctive of that branch of the service. The photographer evidently posedhis men. Note the hands thrust into the breasts of their jackets, or clasped in front of them, the folded arms, and the jaunty attitudes.The two boys at the left of the picture seem hardly old enough to be real soldiers. The tangle of underbrush along the banks suggestthe mazes of the Wilderness where Grant was baffled in his overland campaign. OUTPOSTS, SCOUTS AND COURIERS i\ By Charles D. Rhodes Captain, General Staff, United States Army AN army on the march is protected from surprise and an-noyance by advance, rear, and flank guards, or by inde-pendent cavalry scouting far to the front until contact with theenemy is established. When it halts, its security is maintainedthrough outposts, instructed to observe the front and flankswhile it sleeps, and to act as a barrier to the entrance of patrolsand spies, or to

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