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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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THE GERM OK THE G. A. R. IDEA William W. Silkworth, of Long Branch, New Jersey, a veteran who had an opportunity to inspect some of tin- pictures reproducedIn the Photographic History, recognized tliis group as Company li, 170th Regiment, New York Volunteers. You cannot appreciateor understand fully my amazement and joy in the discovery, he wrote to the editors. There right in the front of the picture sits mybrother playing ranis (1 ou will note that he is left handed. We laid him away in front of Petersburg). With him is John Vandewater,Geo. Thomas and Wash. Keating. Tin-re is Charlie Thomas and all the rest as true as life. With the exception of two. I have Qol seenany of the boys for thirty years. It was at such moments :ls this, when the Federal soldiers played games and chatted and became1288)
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I OF HEVtWS CO. UNION RESERVES ON PICKET DUTY acquainted, that the organization was, being evolved which has grown into a leading national institution since its formation at Decatur.Illinois, on April 6, 1866. Between the men who had fought and marched and suffered together, who time out of mind had sharedtheir last crust and saved each others lives, who had nursed each other and cheered each other on when another step forward seemed tomean certain death, there arose a great love that extended to the widows and orphans of those whose dying words they had heard on thefield of battle. Ever since that time the organization has lent assistance to those reduced to need by the inexorable war. It admits tomembership any soldier or sailor of the United States Army, Navy or Marine Corps, who served between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865 ®lt? (&tm\b Armij at t\)t Kejmbltr By John E. Gilman, Commander-in-Chief, Grand Army of the Republic AT the close of the Civil War, there were overa mi

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