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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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army were allowed toget water from the same stream without being fired upon bythose on the other side. A sentinel of our picket-guard recog-nized General Grant as he approached, and gave the customarycrv. Turn out the guard—commanding general! The enemyon the opposite side of the creek evidently heard the words, andone of his sentinels cried out, Turn out the guard—GeneralGrant! The Confederate guard took up the joke, anilpromptly formed, facing our line, and presented arms. TheGeneral returned the salute by lifting his hat, the guard wasthen dismissed, and he continued his ride toward our lift. Weknew that we were engaged in a civil war, but such civility ex-ceeded our expectations. THE AGED STRANGER AX INCIDENT OF THE WAK I was with Grant —the stranger said; Said the farmer, Say no more,But rest thee here at my cottage porch. For thy feet are weary and sore. (189 1 UJMti^k $t^§^^ J^ > ^^Cs^^^^ ^^~- I8i$f P§M >>» aK^=EEE2^ £S§^« 3\ - w^ ie% P; fc=>__f!S^£* I
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*V kr >-; % ■ ))K DARKKYS COT SO LONESOME lU.ISTKATION KOK TIIK YKAIt f)F .IUH1M0K The crinoline of the old auntie in the center and the quaint sunbonnets of her companions are distinguish-ing marks of the war-time scene a Mississippi plantation, where the darkies have gathered to relievesome of the Ionesomeness of which Work writes. 11 was one of the noteworthy features of the war that thepeople who, before the conflict, had been supposed to be on the point of rising and inaugural inn a race-war,remained quietly at work on the large plantations. Frequently only women were left to direct the laborof the slaves. Several diaries from various parts of the South tell of the continued affection and even devo-tion of these colored people. It. is only of the close of the war that the scenes in The Year of Jubilee canbe imagined. But the picture above is typical of all the four years of the conflict and of later negro life.

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