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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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THE BLOSSOMS BLOOMING FOR ALL These words of The Blue and the Gray might have been written for the tranquil scene here preserved bythe war-time camera. All the foreground is bright with daisies, and the three graves under the trees by thecottage shine in the peaceful sunlight of a. spring day. Nature asks not to which side belonged those nowlying in their lowly beds—nor do we of any who fell in battle or perished in prison. The sentiment of TheBlue and the Gray is at length the sentiment of the whole American people. The view is typical of the des-olation that followed in the wake of the armies. On the right are the ruins of a line of houses; nothingremains but the crumbling foundations and the massive chimneys where hospitable fires once blazed in thewide fireplaces before throngs of merry young people. To the left are the remains of the humbler cottage.In the background are the woods where many a picnic made the days pass happily. The life of ease and quietamong these Arcadian sur

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