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Title: The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, ed Campbell-Copeland, T. (Thomas), ed Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1839-1914 Vandervoort, Paul. History of the Grand Army of the Republic Avery, I. W. (Isaac Wheeler), 1837-1897. History of the Confederate Veterans' Association Davis, A. P. History of the Sons of Veterans Merrill, Frank P. History of the Sons of Veterans
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Navy Grand Army of the Republic United Confederate Veterans Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Publisher: New York Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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*ffE SOLDIER IN OLR CIVIL WAR, 51 THE UPRISING Of THE PEOPLE. The fall of For*. Sumter—Uie liret success of thoConfederates; the humiliation attending the low-ering of the American Flag; and the giving to thebreeze the banner of the Palmetto State, had atwo-fold effect. In the hoods of the secessionists the news servedas the lever with which they ronsed the martialspirit of their people, and made the leadors, leadersindeed. They had already organized in all theStates considerable armies, and this success of theirfirst effort multiplied recruits and stimulated tbowhole people, who magnified the exploit into aglorious victory, and from that moment cementedinto one nation of revolutionist* the radical andconservative elements, and taught all to believe thatthey conld soon dictate terms of peace, or even,with the aid of the great Democratic party, conquerthe abolition North. The banks emptied their vaults into the Confed-erate Treasury, Planters gave their available for-tunes, and thems

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