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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Copyright by Retnew of Reviews Co. EVE OF THE CONFLICT Stone Church, Centrevillc. Virginia.—Past this little stone church on the night of July ^0, ISfil, and long into the morning of tlie twenty-first marched lines of hurrying troops. Their blue uniforms were new, their muskets bright and polished, an<l though some faces werepale their spirits were elated, for after their short training they were going to take part, for the first time, in the great game of war. Itwas the first move of the citizen soldier of the North toward actual conflict. Xot one knew exactly what lay before him. The menwere mostly from New England and the Middle States. They had left desk and shop and farm and forge, and with the thought intheir minds that the war would last for three months the majority had been mustered in. Only the very wise and farseeing had prophe-sied the immensity of the struggle, and these were regarded as extremists. Their ideas were laughed at. So on they went in long linesdown the r

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