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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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photograph that made this picture and those on tiie three following pages. A story goes withthem, told by one of the very men pictured here. .\s he looked at it forty-six years later, how vividly the whole scene came back tohim! This is Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, known as Coopers Battery of the Fifth Corps, under General G. K. Warren.On the forenoon of this bright June day, Brady, the photographer, drove his light wagon out to the entrenchments. The Confederateslay along the sky-line near where rose the ruined chimney of a house belonging to a planter named Taylor. Approaching CaptainCooper, Brady politely asked if he could take a picture of the battery, when just about to fire. At the command, from force of habit,the men jumped to their positions. Hardly a face was turned toward the camera. They might be oblivious of its existence. The can-noneer rams home a ch>arge. The gunner thumbs the vent—but our friend the enemy just over the hill observes the movement.
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THE MAN WHO REMEMBERED and, thinking it means business, opens up. Away goes Bradys horse, scattering chemicals and plates. The gun in the foregroundis ready to send a shell across the open ground, but Captain Cooper reserves his fire. Brady, seeing his camera is uninjured, recallshis assistant and takes the other photographs, moving his instrument a little to the rear. And the man who saw it then, sees it allagain to-day just as it was. He is even able to pick out many of the men by name. Their faces come back to him. Turning thepage, may be seen Captain James H. Cooper, leaning on his sword, and Lieutenant Alcorn, on the extreme right. In the photographabove is Lieutenant Miller, back of the gun. Lieutenant James A. Gardner was the man who saw all this, and in the picture on thepreceding page he appears seated on the trail of the gun to the left in the act of sighting the gun. The other officers shown in thispicture were no longer living when, in 1911, he described the actors in the

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