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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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ered flags, willpass in grand review through the avenues of the capital. Here upon this assortment of transports, without confu-sion and with the precision of a well-oiled machine, one hun-dred and twenty-one thousand men, with all the equipment forwar, including fourteen thousand horses and mules, forty-fourbatteries, wagons, pontoon bridges, and boats are loaded. Itcomprises a fleet of four hundred vessels. On board men areswarming like ants; they unmoor from the landings and lazilyfloat down the river. The unfinished dome of the Capitol fadesaway in the distance. The men gather in little knots and canbut conjecture as to their destination. Swinton tells us that it was an undertaking which foreconomy and celerity of movement is without a parallel onrecord. This vast army with its entire equipage was trans-ferred in about two weeks a distance of two hundred mileswithout the loss of a man, from the scene of its jireparation atWashington to the Flanders of the Civil ^Var. May 1862 J. m
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McCLELLANS HEADQUARTERS BEFORE YORKTOWN Camp Winfield Scott, near Wormleys Creek. General McClcllan was a stickler for neatness. His headquarters were models ofmilitary order. The guard always wore white gloves, even in the active campaign. Here we see the generals chargers with theirgrooms, the waiting orderlies and the sentry standing stifBy at support arms. .\t the left is the guardhouse with stacked muskets.

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