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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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hWere shrivelled at the cannons mouth, And all her hopes were desolate. In vain the Tennesseean set His breast against the bayonet; In vain Virginia charged and raged,A tigress in her wrath uncaged, Till all the hill was red and wet! Above the bayonets, mixed and crossed, Men saw a gray, gigantic ghostReceding through the battle-cloud,And heard across the tempest loud The death-cry of a nation lost! The brave went down! Without disgraceThey leaped to Ruins red embrace; They only heard Fames thunders wake. And saw the dazzling sun-burst breakIn smiles on Glorys bloody face! They fell, who lifted up a handAnd bade the sun in heaven to stand:They smote and fell, who set the barsAgainst the progress of the stars.And stayed the march of Motherland! They stood, who saw the future come On through the fights delirium; They smote and stood, who held the hopeOf nations on that slippery slope Amid the cheers of Christendom. (21G1 £Sl§Sa cS>j Ss iU n ^ 1§^S =?§S2^ s^m p5? pBSISSbb ass^^f r
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. A GUN AND GUNNERS THAT REPULSED PICKETTS CHARGE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TREASUKED NEARLY HALF A CENTURY BY THE CAPTAIN OF THIS BATTERY This photograph of a gun and cannoneers that helped to check Picketts charge at Gettysburg waspreserved for nearly fifty years by Andrew Cowan, captain of the battery containing this gun. Fromthai bloody angle on Cemetery Ridge his life was spared, although the commanders of the batteriesto right and left of him. Lieutenant Alonzo H. Gushing and Captain James Rorty, both were killed.At the very height of the action. General Henry J. Hunt, chief of artillery of the army, rode into thebattery and fired his revolver at the oncoming gray line, exclaiming: Seeem! See em! See em!A moment later. Cowan ordered his guns to cease firing, for fear of injuring the men of the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania al the wall in their front. The Sixty-ninth suddenly swung to the right, leavingthe guns uncovered. The Confederates came rushing on f

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