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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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pens 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 drama that the glass plate had preserved forty-six years.
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JUST AS THE CAMERA CAUGHT THEM General Warrens Corps had arrived in front of Petersburg on the 17th oi June, 1S(>4, and Battery B of tlie First Pennsylvania LightArtillery was put into position near the Avery house. Before them the Confederates were entrenched, with Beauregard in com-mand. On the 17th, under cover of darkness, the Confederates fell back to their third line, just visible beyond the woods to the left inthe first picture. Early the next morning Battery B was advanced to the line of entrenchments shown above, and a sharp interchangeof arlilliTy fire took place in the afternoon. So busy were both sides throwing up entrenchments and building forts and lunettes thatthere had been very little interchange of compliments in the way of shells or bullets at this point until Photographer Bradys presenceand the gathering of men of Battery B at their posts called forth the well-pointed salute. Men soon became accustomed to artillery

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