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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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SIX HTXDRED MILES IX SIXTEEN DAYS Seventeen hundred men who inarched 600 miles in sixteen days, from ^i<•ksl)llr£; to Baton Rouge. On Ajiril17, lSfi.3, Grant despatched Grierson on a raid from LaGrange, Tennessee, soutlnvard as a means of divertingattention from his own movements against ^ioksbu^g, and to disturb tlie Confederate line of sujjplies fromthe East. Grierson destroyed sixty miles of tracks and telegraph, numberless stores and munitions of war,and l)rought his command safely through to Baton Rouge. These two pictures by Lytic, the ConfederateSecret Service agent at Baton Rouge, form one of the most remarkable feats of wet-plate photography. Theaction continued as he moved his camera a trifle to the right, and the result is a veritable moving picture.In the plmldi^rapli on the left-hand piiLc. only the first trooj) is disiiioiinlcd and unsaddled. In the photo-
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, REVIEW OF REVItiSS CO. HOW GRIERSONS RAIDERS LOOKED TO THE CONFEDERATE SECRET SERVICE CAMERA graph on the right-hand page two troops are already on foot. Note the officers in front of their troops. The))hotograpii was evidently a long time exposure, as is shown by the progress of the covered wagon which hasliriven into the picture on the left-hand page. It was at the conclusion of this remarkable raid that Griersonreported that the Confederacy was a hollow shell. All of its population able to carry arms was on the lineof defense. Captain John A. Wyeth, the veteran Confederate cavalryman who contributes to other pagesof this volume, wrote when he saw these photographs: I knew General Grierson personally, and have alwayshad the highest regard for his skill and courage as shown more jjarticularly in this raid than in anythingelse that he did, although he was always doing well. (G-9)

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