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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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ng of the Chancellorsville strngsle. readyl open lire with their :5^2-,,uunders against the fateful Maryes Heights across the river-where Sedgwiekan.i his gallant Sixth Corps were to plu.k the only shred of vi<.tory that remained to the beaten Army oftlu- Potomac at the close of Hookers futile and costly campaign. ()n the night of May 2d cv.me the ordert.. advance. The men of the Si.xth Corps, already drawn up in battle, slept on their arms till dawn,ready to pu.sh forward and play their part in the conflict, the distant heavy booming of which had shakenthe a.r as they ha<l stood all .lay impatiently waiting. The troo,,s of the Sixth Corps marched out acrossthe plan, from the river at four oVlo<-k in the morning; a..d as they reached the eastern part of Fredericks-burg the Confederate batteries opene.l upon (hem from above, while the skirmishers rose in swarms beforethem and poured volley after volley into their ranks, the conflict being hottest around a large mansion
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COPVHIGMT, 1 REVIEW OF RCVIEAS CO. FEDERAL BATTERY BEFORE FREDERICKSBUR(i, MAY ;5, ISdS in the town, where both sides dodged liehind the garden-fence of the outliouses and fonght furiously. Fora lirief interval the Federals were held in check, but the rifled guns on Stafford Heights were already hurlingtheir huge shells across the river and the wide valley, to burst in the Confederate works on the ridge beforewhich Sedgwicks men waited for the order to charge. Field batteries were unlimbered and these addedtheir iron hail to the hammering that was being inflicted on Maryes Heights, where .so many brave Federalshad lost their lives the previous December. At half-past ten Sedgwick, seeing that the Heights coul.lbe taken only by direct a.s.sault, ordered General Newton to command ll.c charg(>, and the two commandersanxiously watchc.I f.,r the outcome of another hurling of fle.sh and blood up the slope against the sunkenroad,which held such bitter memories. The columns went forward as

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