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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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SHERIDAN'S RIDE
Up from the South, at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.

And wider still those billows of war
Thundered along the horizon's bar;
And louder yet into Winchester rolled
The roar of that red sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood of the listener cold,
As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray,
With Sheridan twenty miles away.

But there is a road from Winchester town,
A good, broad highway leading down :
And there, through the flush of the morning light,
A steed as black as the steeds of night
Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight ;
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"OVER THE MARSHLAND AND OYER THE HIGHLAND"
FEDERAL FORTIFICATIONS NEAR THE RAILROAD, SOUTH OF NEW BERNE

This view recalls the incident of March 14, 1862, described by Clinton Scollard in "The Daughter of the Regiment". Burnside's attack
on New Berne was part of the blockading movement which sought to close every port along the Southern coasts. The Fifth Rhode
Island was in General John G. Parke's brigade. The soldiers were so eager to engage the enemy that many of them leaped from the
ship into the water and waded waist-deep to the shore, and during the day often waded knee-deep in mud. The next morning little
could be seen in the open piney woods, owing to the dense fog. This condition accounts for the confusion that might have proved
serious but for Kady Brownell. The brigade marched on out of the woods, and charged the Confederate works. Burnside himself
reported: "Too much praise cannot be awarded to the officers and men for their untiring exertion and unceasing patience in accom-
plishing this work.

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