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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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ehension as to thesafety of the national capital. On the 19th of April, 18G1, the^lassacliusetts Sixth, on its way to the protection of Washing-ton, had been attacked in Baltimore, and connections betweenWashington and the Xoitli were cut off. A few hundred troopsrejiresented all the forces that the nation had for the momentbeen able to jjlace in jjosition for the protection of the capital. I have stood, as thousands of visitors have stood, in I^in-colns old study, the windows of which overlook the Potomac;and I have had recalled to mind the vision of his tall figureand sad face as he stood looking across the river where thepicket lines of the Virginia troops could be traced by thesmoke, and dreading from morning to morning the approachof these troops over the Long Bridge. There must have cometo Lincoln during these anxious days the dread that he was tobe the last President of the United States, and that the torch,representing the life of the nation, tliat had been transmitted ( o« 1
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Copyrigld bi/ Falrint Pub. Co. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Here the gaunt figure of the Great Emancipator confronted General McClellan in his headquarters two weeks after Antietam hadchecked Lees invasion of Maryland and had enabled the President to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Bradys camera haspreserved this remarkaljle occasion, the last time that these two men met each other. We spent some time on the battlefield andconversed fully on the state of affairs. He told me that he was satisfied with all that I had done, that he would stand by me. Heparted from me with the utmost cordiality. said General McClellan. The plan to follow up the success of Antietam in theeffort to bring the war to a speedy conclusion must have been the thought uppermost in the mind of the Commander-in-Chief of theArmy as he talked with his most popular General in the tent. A few days later came the order from Washington to cross the Potomacand give battle to the enemy or drive him South. McClellan was relie

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