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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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nscrutable powers:Bravely the two armies foughtAnd left the land, that was greater than they, still theirsand ours! Lucid, pure, and calm and blameless Dawned on Gettysburg the dayThat should make the spot, once fameless, Known to nations far away.Birds were caroling, and farmers Gladdened oer their garnered hay,When the clank of gathering armors Broke the mornings peaceful sway;And the living lines of foemen Drawn oer pasture, brook, and hill,Formed in figures weird of omen That should work with mystic willMeasures of a direful magic— Shattering, maiming—and should fillGlades and gorges with a tragic Madness of desire to kill.Skirmishers flung lightly forward Moved like scythemen skilled to sweepWestward oer the field and norward, Deaths first harvest there to reap.You would say the soft, white smoke-puffs Were but languid clouds asleep,Here on meadows, there on oak-bluffs, Fallen foam of Heavens blue deep.Yet that blossom-white outbreaking Smoke wove soon a martyrs shroud. (220)
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. AFTER THE BATTLE—ROUND TOP, SOUTHERN END OF THE FEDERAL LINE From these rocks of Round Top, asseen from Little Round Top, echoedthe cannonading at Gettysburg—theheaviest ever heard on this continent,and seldom equaled anywhere. Fortwo miles the Confederate line wasplanted thick with cannon. GeneralHancocks official account gives aclear notion of this part of the battle:From 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. there wasan ominous stillness. About 1 oclock,apparently by a given signal, theenemy opened upon our front withthe heaviest artillery fire I have everknown. Their guns were in positionat an average distance of about 1,400yards from my line, and ran in a semi-circle from the town of Gettysburg toa point opposite Round Top Moun-tain. Their number is variously es-timated at from one hundred and fif-

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