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Title: The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, ed Campbell-Copeland, T. (Thomas), ed Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1839-1914 Vandervoort, Paul. History of the Grand Army of the Republic Avery, I. W. (Isaac Wheeler), 1837-1897. History of the Confederate Veterans' Association Davis, A. P. History of the Sons of Veterans Merrill, Frank P. History of the Sons of Veterans
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Navy Grand Army of the Republic United Confederate Veterans Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Publisher: New York Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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et incomeof his farm to the same great cause. His wifedevoted her time, as did thousands upon thousandsof other noble and delicate women, to makingclothing for tho soldiers. Miss Henrietta Kecnan, of Milledgeville, adaughter of Colonel Augustus U. Keeuan, a bril-liant, queenly woman, tendered to Governor Brown,in behalf of herself and her mother, for the use ofthe State, their silver plate, of considerable value.Tho Governor said, if it became a necessity, hewould accept it. A company was organized below Gaddistown,in Fannin County, and named Mrs. Joe BrownsBoys. In recognition of tbo compliment, Mrs.Brown, the wife of the Governor, fitted this com-pany with a suit of clothes, purchasing the cloth uvMilledgevillo, and making and sending one to eachmember. All over the State voluntary generous patr.vzamwas shown. Some idea may bo formed of ho igloriously Georgia responded to the demands ■•, •her manhood, from tho fact that; ap to the 1>- Ol 52 THE SCLDJliR IH OC/Ji CJt-JJ. WAR
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THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL WAR. Si Octouer, 1881, she had sent forty magnificent regi-ments to the battle-field. This makes a grand factin her var record. General Dix presided at the principal stand atthe great him meeting atUniun Square, New YorkCity, April 20th, 1SC1. In his speech he said : Iregard tlie pending contest with the secessionists asa death-struggle for cniiBtllntriinal liberty and law—a contest wliicli, if successful on tlicir part, couldonly end i the establishment of a despotic govern-ment, mid blot out, whenever they were in theascendant, every vestige of national freedom.. . . We stand before the statue of the Fatherof his Country. Tlio flag of the Union which floatsover it hung above him when he presided over theconvention by which the Constitution was frame1The great work of his life has been rejected, andthi- banner by which his labors were con sec ratedhjifl been trampled in the dust. If the inanimatebronze in which the sculptor lias shaped his imagecould be cha

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