. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ON THE DAY OF BATTLE—SHELLING EARLYS TROOPS IX FREDERICKSBURG Here is no play at war. These guns were actually throwing their iron hail against Maryes Heights acrossthe river on the very day that this photograph was taken by Captain A. J. Russell, the Government photog-rapher. Early that morning the LTnion guns opened with a roar; at half past ten Sedgwicks gallant SixthCorps charged up the hill where nearly 13,000 of their comrades had fallen the previous the assault the field artillery added its clamor to the heav

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ON THE DAY OF BATTLE—SHELLING EARLYS TROOPS IX FREDERICKSBURG Here is no play at war. These guns were actually throwing their iron hail against Maryes Heights acrossthe river on the very day that this photograph was taken by Captain A. J. Russell, the Government photog-rapher. Early that morning the LTnion guns opened with a roar; at half past ten Sedgwicks gallant SixthCorps charged up the hill where nearly 13,000 of their comrades had fallen the previous the assault the field artillery added its clamor to the heavy boom of the big guns, clearing the wayfor the intrepid Union columns which General Newton led up the once deadly hiU to victory. [16]

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