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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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CONFEDERATES AT DRILL—NOT -SMART BIT FIGHTERS One misses the smartness which we in Europe are accustomed to associate with military establishments.11 The sighl of thisConfederate officer in his shirt-sleeves, and of his determined-looking company behind, recalls this remark, made by General LordWolseley, then Colonel Wolseley and later Governor-General of Canada, after inspecting Lees army in the lower Shenandoah \ alleyjust after the Maryland campaign of 18f>2—the year after the Florida photograph above was taken. The look of the men, gauntand hollow-eyed, worn with marching and lack of proper food, until they did not carry an ounce of superfluous flesh; powdered thickwith dust until their clothing and accouterment were all one uniform dirty gray, except where the commingled grime and sweathad streaked and crusted the skin on face and head; the jaded, unkempt horses and dull, mud-bespattered gun-carriages and cais-sons of the artillery; even trivial details; the nauseating fla

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