. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . MUTE PLEADERS IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE There was little timethat could be employedby either side in caringfor those who fell uponthe fields of the almostuninterrupted fightingat Gettysburg. On themorning of the 4th,when Lee began toabandon his position onSeminary Ridge, oppo-site the Federal right,both sides sent forthambulance and burialdetails to remove thewounded and bury thedead in the torrentialrain then falling. Undercover of the hazy at-mosphere, Lee was
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . MUTE PLEADERS IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE There was little timethat could be employedby either side in caringfor those who fell uponthe fields of the almostuninterrupted fightingat Gettysburg. On themorning of the 4th,when Lee began toabandon his position onSeminary Ridge, oppo-site the Federal right,both sides sent forthambulance and burialdetails to remove thewounded and bury thedead in the torrentialrain then falling. Undercover of the hazy at-mosphere, Lee was get-. ?■_-.■: .. ting his whole army inmotion to an unfinishedshallow grave, like theone above, had to beleft by the this lower picturesome men of the Twenty-fourth Michigan in-fantry are lying deadon the field of regiment—one ofthe units of the IronBrigade—left seven dis-tinct rows of dead as itfell back from battle-lineto battle-line, on the firstday. Three-fourths ofits members were struck MEX OF THE IRON BRIGADE l¥ 1 i* if ^ legions to make all possible speed to Gettysburg. Beforemorning, nearly all the troops of both armies had reached thefield. The Union army rested with its center on CemeteryRidge, with its right thrown around to Culps Hill and its leftextended southward toward the rocky peak called Round Confederate army, with its center on Seminary Ridge,its wings extending from beyond Rock Creek on the north to apoint opposite Round Top on the south, lay in a great semi-circle, half surrounding the Army of the Potom
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