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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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DEEDS OF VALOR

"Take him — and welcome!" the surgeons said
" Little the doctor can help the dead!"
So we took him and brought him where
The balm was sweet in the summer air;
And we laid him down on a wholesome bed
Utter Lazarus, heel to head!

And we watched the war with abated breath
Skeleton hoy against skeleton death.
Months of torture, how many such!
Weary weeks of the stick and crutch;
And still a glint of the steel-blue eye
Told of a spirit that wouldn't die.

And didn't. Nay, more! in death's despite
The crippled skeleton learned to write.
"Dear Mother," at first, of course; and then
Dear Captain," inquiring about the men.
Captain's answer: " Of eighty-and-five,
Giffen and I are left alive."

Word of gloom from the war, one day;
" Johnston pressed at the front, they say."
Little Giffen was up and away;
A tear — his first — as be bade good-by.
Dimmed the lint of his steel-blue eye.
I'll write, if spared!"
There was news of the fight;
But none of Giffen. He did not write.

I sometimes fancy that, were I king
Of the princely knights of the Golden Ring,
With the song of the minstrel in mine tar.

And the tender legend that trembles here,
I'd give the best on his bended knee.

The whitest soul of my chivalry.
For Little Giffen, of Tennessee.

Francis Orray Ticknor.

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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.

WILLIAM BLACK, THE YOUNGEST WOUNDED SOLDIER REPORTED

Lest the instance of "Little Giffen" seem an uncommon one. there is presented here
the winning face of little William Black. He was the youngest hoy, it is true,
to be reported "wounded." Yet General Charles King's "researches on Boys of
the War Days" in Volume VIII brings oul the fact that over 800,000 lads of
seventeen or less were found in the ranks of the Union army, that over 200,000
were no more than sixteen, that there were even 100,000 on the Union rolls who
were no more than fifteen."

DEEDS OF VALOR

THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT

(Fifth Rhode Island)

The young lady here celebrated had attracted attention in New
York as the troops passed through the city on the way to the front. The
New York Herald of April 25, 1861, said:
" The volunteers bring along with them two very prepossessing
young women, named Martha Francis and Katey Brownell, both of
Providence, who propose to act as daughters of the regiment, after
the French plan."

Who with the .soldiers was stanch danger-sharer,—
Marched in the ranks through the shriek of the shell?
Who was their comrade, their brave color-bearer?
Who hut the resolute Kady Brownell!

While the mad rout at Manassas was surging,
When those around her lied wildly, or fell,

And the hold Beauregard onward was urging,
Who so undaunted as Kady Brownell!

When gallant Burnside made dash upon Newberne,
Sailing the Neuse 'gainst the sweep of the swell.
Watching the flag on the heaven's broad blue burn.
Who higher hearted than Kady Brownell?

In the deep slough of the springtide debarking,
Toiling o'er leagues that are weary to tell,
Time with the sturdiest soldiery marking.
Forward, straight forward, strode Kady Brownell.

Reaching the lines where the army was forming.
Forming to charge on those ramparts of hell.
When from the wood came her regiment swarming.
What did she see there — this Kady Brownell?

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