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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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ried Southern missives inthe black hours of midnight under the very muzzles of the anchored guns in the broad reaches of the Potomac: Virginia «H-\\/ farm boys, or girls—born riders all—bore all manner of mes-sages from river to river and so to the Southern lines south-east of Fredericksburg, and thus around to Gordonsville andthe Confederate army. The Northern newspapers, under the inspiration of pro-fessional rivalry, kept the Southern cabinet remarkably wellinformed of everything going on within the Union lines, andnot infrequently prepared the Confederate generals for thenext move of the Union army. It was this that finally ledthe vehement Sherman to seek to eliminate the newspaper menfrom his military bailiwick, about as hopeless a task as thevery worst assigned to Hercules. Grant, with his accustomedstoicism, accepted their presence in his army as somethinginseparable from American methods of warfare, adding tothe problems and perplexities of the generals commanding, (22) ^
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MAP PHOTO-GRAPHINGFOR THE ARMYIN THE FIELD THE PROCESS THAT TOOK GARDNER INTO THE SECRET SERVICE Alexander Gardners usefulness to the secret service lay in the copying of maps by the methods shownabove—and keeping quiet about it. A great admirer of Gardners was young William A. Pinkerton, sonof Allan Pinkerton, then head of the secret service. Forty-seven years later Mr. Pinkerton furnished forthe Photographic History some reminiscences of Gardners work: It was during the winter of 61- 02that Gardner became attached to the Secret Service Corps, then under my lather. I was then a boy, rang-ing from seventeen to twenty-one years of age, during all of which time I was in intimate contact withGardner, as he was at our headquarters and was utilized by the Government for photographing maps andother articles of that kind which were prepared by the secret service. I have quite a number of his viewswhich were made at that time. These negatives, more than a thousand in number, are among the c

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