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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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JUST BEFORE SHERIDAN CAME, 1864 This photograph shows the Eighteenth Pennsylvania in winter-quarters near Brandy Station in March,1864, a month before the most important event in the history of the Federal cavalry—the unifying of thecavalry branch under the aggressive Sheridan. After Kilpatricks raid on Richmond, ending the -2d ofMarch, these troopers rested in camp until Sheridan left for his Richmond raid on May 9th. A month incamp is a long time for cavalry, and here one has a good opportunity to see witli what rapidity and ease atrooper had learned to make himself comfortable. Barrels have been placed upon the chimneys in order to
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THE EIGHTEENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY increase their draft. Light enclosures of poles have been thrown up for the horses, and fodder has beenstacked up on the hill. With stumps and cross-pieces the McClellan saddles are kept out of the wet andmud. The saddles were covered with rawhide instead of leather, and were more uncomfortable when theysplit than an ill-fitting shoe. The troopers themselves look fairly contented, and some of them are notso lean and angular as in the days of scouting and hard riding. There is plenty of work ahead of them,however, nearer Richmond, which will quickly enable them to rid themselves of any superfluous flesh. njantzaiinn of tljp 3$?bn<xl (ftatralnj * *

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