. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . rethe Southern hosts had fixed their batteries and entrenchedthemselves most advantageously upon the hills, and the Unionlegions, massed in menacing strength below, now lay withineasy cannon-shot of their foe. The Union army totaled onehundred and thirteen thousand men. After skirmishing andgathering of strength, it was at length ready for the finalsjn-ing and the death-grapple. When the suns rays broke through the fog during theforenoon of December 13th, Fr
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . rethe Southern hosts had fixed their batteries and entrenchedthemselves most advantageously upon the hills, and the Unionlegions, massed in menacing strength below, now lay withineasy cannon-shot of their foe. The Union army totaled onehundred and thirteen thousand men. After skirmishing andgathering of strength, it was at length ready for the finalsjn-ing and the death-grapple. When the suns rays broke through the fog during theforenoon of December 13th, Franklins Grand Division wasrevealed in full strength in front of the Confederate right,marching and countermarching in preparation for the com-ing conflict. Officers in new, bright uniforms, thousands ofbayonets gleaming in the sunshine, champing steeds, rattlinggun-carriages whisking artillery into proper range of the foe,infantry, cavalry, batteries, with officers and men, formed ascene of magnificent grandeur which excited the admirationeven of the Confederates. This maneuver has been called thegrandest military scene of the -■_
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