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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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uave. We see them stillwearing the uniform of the bat-tlefield: wide dark-blue trouserswith socks covering the bot-toms, red flannel shirts with thesilver badge of the New YorkFire Department, blue jacketselaborately trimmed with braid,red fez caps with blue tas.sels,and a blue sash around thewaist. Their regiment, the fa-mous Ellsworths Zouaves,was posted at Bull Run as asupport forRicketts and GriffinsBatteries during the fiercefighting of the afternoon on theHenry House hill. They gaveway before the charge of theConfederates, leaving 48 deadand 7.5 woimded on the field.About 6,5 of them were takenprisoners, some of whom we seehere a month after the battle. The following October theprisoners were exchanged, .^t the beginning of the war thepossession of prisoners did not mean as much to the South asit did later in the struggle, when exchanges became almostthe last resource for recruiting the dwindling ranks. Almostevery Southerner capable of bearing arms had already joinedthe colors.
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