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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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ber poem, Itoll Call, lives in this group—from the spadesmen whose last services to their comrades have I ii performed, to the solemn bearers of the muffled drums. Many more such occasions were to arise; for these soldiers belonged to the brigade thai suffered the greatest loss of life of any one brigade during the war; 1,172 of its men were either killed in battle ordied of wounds The same five regiments that lay in (amp (Irilfin when this picture was taken in 186) marched together in theGrand Review on Pennsylvania Avenue In Washington, in 1865 When their term of enlistment expired in lsiit. they had all re-enlisted and preserved the existence of the brigade. It was famous also for being composed entirely of troops from one State. Itcontained the Second, Third, fourth. Fifth and Sixth Vermont Infantry, and later the First Vermont Heavy Artillery. It wasin this respect conspicuous in the Union army, which did not adopt the Confederate policy of grouping regiments from the same(138)
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REVIEW OF RtVEWS CO BURIAL PARTY, OLD VERMONT BRIGADE, (AMP GRIFFIN, NEAB WASHINGTON, 1861 State in brigades. The gallant record of the Vermont brigade was nowhere more conspicuous than in the Wilderness campaign. Thefirst five regiments lost in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6-6, 1864, 195 killed, 1,017 wounded, and ..7 missing, making a total of(,269 Within a week its loss had amounted to 58per cent. of the number engaged The words of the poet are therefore no merelyfanciful picture of frightful loss in battle. There were a dozen battles in which the Federal armies alone lost more than 10,000 men,enough in each case to populate a city, and il has been estimated thai the totals on both sides amounted to more than 700,000 killedand wounded. When it is recalled that most of these were young men, who in the natural course of events had many years of use-fulness yet to live for their country, the cost to the American nation is simply appalling. This is entirely aside from the many sor

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