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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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WALL-TEXTSCOMPARATIVE COMFORT ON THE CONFEDERATE COAST Although most comforts had disappeared from the Army of Northern Virginia by 1862, as well as fromthe armies in the West, the port garrisons like those around Charleston were able to keep their wall-tents.So great is the luxury among this mess of the Washington Light Infantry in garrison at Charleston,that they even have initials painted upon their water-bucket; and, wonder of wonders! there hangs a towel.One who inquired of a veteran as to the opportunities for toilet-making was answered thus: On the marchwe generally had water enough to wash our hands and faces, but sometimes, especially when there was briskskirmishing every day, the men didnt get a chance to wash their bodies for weeks together. It was fun ina country comparatively free from the enemy to see a column strike a river. Hundreds of the boys would bestripped in an instant, and the river banks would reecho with their shouts and splashing. It was only ongarrison duty

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