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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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THE HEIGHT OF THE BATTLE-TIDE Near this gate to the local cemetery of Gettysburg there stood during the battle this sign: All persons found using firearms in thesegrounds will be prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law. Many a soldier must have smiled grimly at those words, for this gate-way became the key of the Federal line, the very center of the crudest use of firearms yet seen on this continent. On the first dayReynolds saw the value of Cemetery Hill in case of a retreat. Howard posted his reserves here, and Hancock greatly strengthenedthe position. One hundred and fifty Confederate guns were turned against it that last afternoon. In five minutes every man ofthe Federals had been forced to cover; for an hour and a half the shells fell fast, dealing death and laying waste the summer verdurein the little graveyard. Up to the very guns of the Federals on Cemetery Hill, Pickett led his devoted troops. At night of the 3dit was one vast slaughter-field. On this eminence, where thou

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