Identifier: civilwarthroughc00elso (find matches)
Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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AFTER THE GREAT MASS MEETING IN UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1861 Knots of citizens still linger around the stands where Anderson, who had abandoned Sumter only six daysbefore, had jtist roused the multitude to wild enthusiasm. Of this gathering in support of the Governmentthe New York Herald said at the time: Such a mighty uprising of the people has never before been witnessedin New York, nor throughout the whole length and breadth of the Union. Five stands were erected, fromwhich some of the most able speakers of the city and state addressed the multitude on the neeessitj ofrallying around the flag of the Republic in this hour of its danger. A series of resolutions was proposed andunanimously adopted, pledging the meeting to use every means to preserve the Union intact and inviolate.Great unanimity prevailed throughout the whole proceedings; party politics were ignored, and the en-tire meeting—speakers and listeners—were a unit in maintaining the national honor unsullied. M

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