. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . UNION PICKET NEAR FORT MAIIONE,THE CONFEDERATE STRONGHOLD. THE FINISHED PRODUCT It is winter-time before Petersburg. Grants army, after the assault of October 27th, has settled down to the waiting game that canhave but one result. Look at the veterans in this picture of 64—not a haggard or hungry face in all this group of a hundred or clad, well-fed, in the prime of manly vigor, smiling in confidence that the end is almost now in sight, these are the men whohold the thirty-odd miles of Federal trenches that hem in Lees
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . UNION PICKET NEAR FORT MAIIONE,THE CONFEDERATE STRONGHOLD. THE FINISHED PRODUCT It is winter-time before Petersburg. Grants army, after the assault of October 27th, has settled down to the waiting game that canhave but one result. Look at the veterans in this picture of 64—not a haggard or hungry face in all this group of a hundred or clad, well-fed, in the prime of manly vigor, smiling in confidence that the end is almost now in sight, these are the men whohold the thirty-odd miles of Federal trenches that hem in Lees ragged army. Outdoor life and constant roughing it affects menvariously. There was many a young clerk from the city, slender of limb, lacking in muscle, a man only in the embryo, who finished histhree or five years term of ser\ice with a constitution of iron and sinews like whip-cords. Strange to say, it was the regiments fromup-country and the backwoods, lumbermen and farmers, who after a short time in camp began to show most the effect of hardship
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