. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . York after the SecondBattle of Bull Run, August 30. 1862. When the troops of Gen-erals Milroy and Schurz were hard pressed by overpowering num-bers and exhausted by fatigue, this New York regiment, beingordered forward, quickly advanced with a cheer along the War-renton Turnpike and deployed about a milewest of the field of the conflict of July 21,1861. The fighting men replied with an-swering shouts, for- with the regiment thatcame up at the double quick ga
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . York after the SecondBattle of Bull Run, August 30. 1862. When the troops of Gen-erals Milroy and Schurz were hard pressed by overpowering num-bers and exhausted by fatigue, this New York regiment, beingordered forward, quickly advanced with a cheer along the War-renton Turnpike and deployed about a milewest of the field of the conflict of July 21,1861. The fighting men replied with an-swering shouts, for- with the regiment thatcame up at the double quick galloped abattery of artillery. The charging Con-federates were held and this position wasassailed time and again. It became thecenter of the sanguinary combat of theday, and it was here that the Bull-Dogsearned their name. Among the first torespond to Lincolns call, they enlisted inJune, 61, and when their first service wasover they stepped forward to a man, speci-fying no term of service but putting theirnames on the Honor Roll of Forthe War. THE FIGHTING FORTY-FIRST Brigadier-General King, a division commander in this battle, was. a soldier by profession, and a diplomatist and journalist by in-heritance—for he was a graduate of West Point, a son of CharlesKing, editor of the New York American in 1827, and a grandsonof the elder Rufus, an officer of the Revolution and Ministerto the Court of St. James. He had leftthe army in 1836 to become Assistant En-gineer of the New York & Erie Railroad,a post he gave up to become editor of theDaily Advertiser, and subsequently of theMilwaukee Sentinel. At the outbreak ofthe war Lincoln had appointed him Minis-ter to Rome, but he asked permission todelay his departure, and was made a Brig-adier-General of Yolunteers. Later he re-signed as Minister, and was assigned toMcDowells corps. At the battle of Ma-nassas, in which the Forty-first New Yorkearned honor, he proved an able 1807 he was again appointed asMinister of the United S
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