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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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THE HOUSE WELL NAMED Slaughters house, overlooking the scene of carnage of Cedar Mountain, stood on the northern slope in the rear of the position taken bythe Confederate troops under General Ewell. The brigades of Trimble and Hayes were drawn up near this house, at some distance fromthe brigade of Early. After the battle the whole of Jacksons army was drawn up on the slopes near it.
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^.;o*iS:^^5^@^:-^-g; THE FUGITIVES Virginia Negroes following Popes soldiers in their retreat from Cellar nionntain. From tlie lieginnins, of tlie war Negroes liad been asubject of debate. Even before Bull Run, on May 2G, ISCl, General 15. F. Hutler had declared that all f ugiti\e slaves would be consitleredas contraband of war. Congress, however, decided in August that all slaves confiscated should be held subject to the decision of theUnited States courts. In April of 1802, General Hunter, at Hilton Head, South Carolina, declared that all slaves in his military depart-ment were forever free, but a wcek later Lincoln annulled the proclamation. Hunter, however, raised a storm by organizing a regimentof fugitive slaves. It was only before Cedar Mountain—to be precise, on July 22, 1862—that all National commanders were ordered ) \ 1 1 . .Jt ,.v - :. i -■_.-■ (::_ ^0^^^^ M i; ■.-■■, ^rjUt^^K^^^^^^^^BB^BS^^^^^^^i ^^^&- J .. ^il^^^^HB hH;^mE;^^^ «mI % ^^J^^^H HB^P^kR ^M

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