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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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A HALT ON THE DAY OF BATTLE The 9th of August, 18(1-2. A sultry day in old Virginia. The brook rippling toward the Rappahannockcools the hoofs of the battery horses at halt, tired with rushing their heavy guns south from Culpeper CourtHouse. The cannoneers lolling on horseback and caisson-seats look as if they too like to rest in the shade.Some gaze at llu- in(l<y wagoners across the creek, at ease while their horses feed. Least war-like of all seemsthe queer wagon to the right. They stare at it, and the civilian beside it, and at his companion wielding the
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leviews CO. FEDERAL ARTILLERY XEARIXG CEDAR MOUXTALN clumsy apparatus for that newly discovered art—photography. Little do the actors in this ciuiet interludeimagine that by half-past two this afternoon the Federal batteries will iilunge into range of a flaring crescenttwo miles long—Stonewall Jacksons guns; that those guns will roar destruction upon them for threehours without ceasing; and that before another sun rises, two thousand of Popes army will lie dead andwounded beside thirteen hundred men in gray, upon the battle-ground of Cedar Mountain.

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