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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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ovement of secession had begun at Charleston. The city wasdear to every Southern heart. Yet military policy clearly dic-tated that the scattered troops in the Carolinas he concentratedagainst Sherman. Indeed, it would have been better policy toevacuate earlier. But sentiment is always powerful. Even Jef-ferson Davis said, Such full preparation had been made that Ihad hoped for other and better results, and the disappointment tome is extremely bitter. When the Union troops from MorrisIsland arrived in Charleston the next morning, they found thatthe commissary depot hail been blown up with the loss of two hun-dred lives, mostly of women and children. An officer reportedPublic buildings, stores, warehouses, private dwellings, shipping,etc.. were burning and being burned by armed (lonfederates. Allthe Negroes in the city were impressed by the Union officers towork the fire apparatus until all the fires were extinguished.But some of the fairest sections of Charleston were already in ruins.
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COPYRIGHT, mi, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO IN VAIN IS THE STRIFE ,„, SOMA* CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN AN- ST. FINBAR, DESTROYED ,,Y THE FTRE OF DECEMBER, 1861 -MOST OF THE «LE BODIEDCITIZENS WERE SERVING AS SOLDIERS, AND THE FLAMES RAGED UNCHECKED. They may figh! till tlic buzzards arc gorged with their spoil. Till the harvest grows black as it ruts in the soil, Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their caves, And tin1 shark tracks the pirate, the lord of the waves: In vain is the strife! When its fury is past,Their fortunes must flow in one channel at last.As the torrents that rush from the mountains of snowRoll mingled in peace through the valleys below. Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky;Man breaks not the medal when God cuts the die!Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel.The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal! () Caroline. Caroline, child of the sun.There are battles with Fate that can never lie won!The star-flowering banner must never li

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