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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h equipment, the soldiersmarched to their first battle. The experience of a single regi-ment was that of thousands. The drums sound the long roll,or the bugle the assembly, and companies form and marchto the regimental color-line. A few moments later the regi-ment marches forward until the first scattering fire of the foe isreceived. Sometimes the antagonists are visible; often but feware seen, but their presence is known by the outburst of flameand smoke from a fringe of forest. The regiment forms in lineof battle, and at the word of command from the colonel, passedfrom company to company, opens fire. No thought now ofmanual of arms, but only of celerity of movement and rapidityof fire. Shouted a gallant officer who at home (as he was inthe field, the war through) an exemplary Christian gentleman, Load as fast as you can, and give them the devil! The bat-tle is now on in earnest, and the discbarge of thousands of mus-kets becomes a roar. The range is not more than two hundred (184) u
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THE VOLUNTEERS TEACHERS -CLASS OF 1860, UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMYIN THE FIELD, 1862 The men who founded the United States Military Academy in 1802 little thought that, three-score yearslater, hundreds of the best-trained military men in America would go forth from its portals to take up thesword against one another. Nine of the forty-one men who were graduated from West Point in 1860 joinedthe Confederate army. The men of this class and that of 1861 hecame the drill-masters, and in many casesthe famous leaders, of the Federal and Confederate armies. The cadet who stood third at graduation in1860 was Horace Porter. He hecame second-lieutenant, lieutenant-colonel three years later, and brigadier-general at the close of the war. He received the Congressional medal of honor for gallantry at Chickamauga,and later gained great honor as ambassador to France. Two other members, James II. Wilson and WesleyMerritt, fought their way to the top as cavalry leaders. Both again were found at th

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