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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-
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Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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The photographs on these two pages tell their own pathetic story—the story not of the wounded and suffer-ing soldiers, but of their thrice-suffering womenkind. To this convalescent camp in Alexandria camethe anxious wives and mothers, sweethearts and sisters to find their soldiers whom they had perhaps not seenfor months or years. The mourning of the woman on the veranda tells the tale of a soldier-boy that isgone. Perhaps she has come to bring the aid and comfort to others which she was denied the privilegeof lavishing on her brother or son. The quaint costumes of the time are very well illustrated in this photo-graph. Then a woman apparently put on a cap at forty, sometimes before. The little girls wear such (276)
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Gen. Heintzelman copyright, ish, revew of bevews eo. voluminous draperies that one wonders how they could get about at all. These were the days of the hoop-skirt and the polonaise. In the photograph to the right they have removed their quaint small hats, andlook less like premature little women. The little boys, in their cunning Kate Greenaway costumes on theleft-hand page, have evidently just come up to get into the photograph. The officer lounging in the chairhas turned his profile to the camera. A great change in the type of womens faces can be seen since thattime. Women have changed more than men. The change is deeper than mere dress, and involvesalso her outlook upon the world. But she is as ready as ever to relieve distress and suffering in war.

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