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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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NOT IN ANGER, NOT IN PRIDE Dedication of First Bull Run Monument, June 10, 1865.—A little more than a month before Lowell read his lofty ode for the sonsof Harvard who had fallen in the Civil War, the group here preserved by the camera assembled to do honor to the dear martyrs whofell in the first great battle of the conflict. The site was on the hillside in front of the stone house, at the spot where on the afternoonof July 21, 1861, Ricketts and Griffin lost their batteries. In that battle the Federal forces had been entirely successful until earlyin the afternoon. Then the Confederates rallied on the brow of this hill, and the ground on which these men and women are gatheredwas the scene of a fierce struggle. The batteries were alternately captured by the Confederates and retaken by the I nion forces,until the arrival of fresh troops in gray threw the Federal army into confusion and precipitated the panic of retreat. At the time(206)
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PATRIOT PUB. CO. TO HEROES LIVING AND DEAR MARTYRS DEAD of this picture, four years later, both soldier and citizen are standing calmly in the sunshine of the peaceful June day. Xot in anger,not in pride do they look into our faces. At the left Judge Olin, with the cane, is standing behind a boy in a white shirt and quainttrousers who almost wistfully is gazing into the distance, as if the call of these mighty events had awakened in him a yearning forfame. To his left are Generals Thomas. Wilcox, Heintzelman, Dyer, and other veterans of many a hard-fought field who can feel themarch of conscious power of which Lowell speaks. And the women with the flaring crinoline skirts and old-fashioned sleevescertainly may join in the far-heard gratitude this celebration was to express. After fifty years their emotions are brought hometo the reader with the vividness of personal experience by the art of the photographer.

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