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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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CON FEDERATE ARTILLERISTS Those Confederate artillerists, members of the famous Washington Artillery of New Orleans, had but few field-pieces with which toface their foes when this photograph was taken, early in 62. Some ordnance stores had been secured when the Confederate Governmentseized coastwise guns and forts. But a visit to the artillery camps later in the war would have revealed the fact that most of the three-inch rifles, the Napoleons, and the Parrott guns had been originally Uncle Sams property, later captured in battle; and an mspect.onof the cavalry would have shown, after the first year, that the Southern troopers were armed with United States sabers taken fromthe same bountiful source. During the first year, before the blockade became stringent, Whitworth guns were brought m from abroad-But that supply was soon stopped, and the Southerners had to look largely to their opponents for weapons. The Tredegar Iron \\orksin Richmond was almost the only factory for cannon, espe

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