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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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OVER THE MARSHLAND AND OYER THE HIGHLAND FEDERAL FORTIFICATIONS NEAR THE RAILROAD, SOUTH OF NEW BERNE This view recalls the incident of March 14, 1862, described by Clinton Scollard in The Daughter of the Regiment. Burnsides attackon New Berne was part of the blockading movement which sought to close every port along the Southern coasts. The Fifth RhodeIsland was in General John G. Parkes brigade. The soldiers were so eager to engage the enemy that many of them leaped from theship into the water and waded waist-deep to the shore, and during the day often waded knee-deep in mud. The next morning littlecould be seen in the open piney woods, owing to the dense fog. This condition accounts for the confusion that might have provedserious but for Kady Brownell. The brigade marched on out of the woods, and charged the Confederate works. Burnside himselfreported: Too much praise cannot be awarded to the officers and men for their untiring exertion and unceasing patience in accom-plishing this

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