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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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k by a brigade of Confederate infantry. The troopers busy beneaththe trees are some of the very men who stood off the long gray lines blazing with fire. In the lower photograph they have moved forward,so that we can study them more closely. They seem quite nonchalant, considering their recent experience, but that is a veterans way.Burnetts house, here pictured, stood not far from the road leading from Old Church Hotel to Old Cold Harbor. It was along this road thatTorbert pursued the Confederates in the afternoon of May 30th, and it was near this house that his di\ision of Sheridans Cavalry Corpsbivouacked that night. The following morning he continued his pursuit, first driving the Confederates into their breastworks at ColdHarbor, and then executing a flank movement to the left, which forced the Southern infantry to fall back three-quarters of a mile farther.Sheridan ordered him to withdraw from this isolated position, and he returned to the scene of his bivouac near Burnetts house.
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