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Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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t was drill, drill. Public opinion grewrestless at the cry Alls Quiet Along the Potomac. At last,on March 17th, McClellan moved. On April 5th the Unionarmy Mas advancing toward Richmond up the Peninsula, butwas stopped at Yorktown by the Confederate GeneralMagruder. Xot until May 3rd were McClellans siege guns inplace. That night the Confederates evacuated. In hot pursuit the Union army followed. At Williams-burg the lines in Gray stood again. Jeb Stuart, D. H.Hill, and Jubal Early fought nobly. They gained their object—more time for their retreating comrades. But McClellansfighting leaders, Hooker, Kearny and Hancock, were not tobe denied. Williamsburg was occupied by the Federal army. With Yorktown and Williamsburg inscribed upon itsvictorious banners, the Army of the Potomac took up againits toilsome march from Cumberland Landing toward theConfederate capital on the James. It was the 16th of May, 1862, when the advanced corpsreached White House, the ancestral home of the Lees. On
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LITTLE MAC PREPARING FOR THE CAMPAIGN—A ROYAL AIDE A picture taken in the fall of 1SG1, when McClellan was at the headquarters of General George W. Morell(who stands at the extreme left), commanding a brigade in Fitz John Porters Division. Morell was thenstationed on the defenses of Washington at Minors Hill in Virginia, and General McClellan was engagedin transforming the raw recruits in the camps near the national capital into the finished soldiers of the Armyof the Potomac. Little Mac, as they called him, was at this time at the height of his popularity. Heappears in the center between two of his favorite aides-de-camp—Lieut.-Cols. A. V. Colburn and N. B.Sweitzer—whom he usually selected, he writes, when hard riding is required. Farther to the rightstand two distinguished visitors—the Prince de Joinville, son of King Louis Phillippe of France, and hisnephew, the Count de Paris, who wears the uniform of McClellans staff, on which he was to serve through-out the Peninsula Cam

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