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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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as killed instantly. General Polk was greatlj- beloved, and his death causeda shock to the whole Confederate army. He was a graduateof AVest Point; but after being graduated he took orders inthe church and for twenty years before the war was EpiscopalBishop of Louisiana. At the outbreak of the war he enteredthe field and served with distinction to the moment of his death. During the next two weeks there was almost incessantfighting, heavy skirmishing, sparring for position. It was awonderful game of military strategy, played among the hillsand mountains and forests by two masters in the art of war.On June 23d, Sherman wrote, The whole country is onevast fort, and Johnston must have full fifty miles of connectedtrenches. . . . Our lines are now in close contact, and thefighting incessant. . . . As fast as we gain one position, theenemy has another all readj. Sherman, conscious of superior strength, was now anx-ious for a real battle, a fight to the finish with his antagonist. (118) \^V
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, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. TIIO:\IAS HEADQUARTERS NEAR MARIETTA DURING THE FIGHTING OF THE FOURTH OF JULY This is a photograph of Iiulcpendence Day, 1864. As the sentries and staff officers stand outside the shel-tered tents, General Thomas, commanding the Army of the Cumberland, is busy; for the fighting is fierceto-day. Johnston has been outflanked from Kenesaw and has fallen back eastward until he is actuallyfarther from Atlanta than Shermans right flank. Who will reach the Chattahoochee first. There, if any-where, Johnston must make his stand; he must hold the fords and ferries, and the fortifications that, withthe wLsdom of a far-seeing commander, lie has for a long time been preparing. The rustic work in the pho-tograph, which embowers the tents of the commanding general and his staff, is the sort of thing that CivilWar soldiers had learned to throw up within an hour after pitching camp.

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