. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . .«>>^- THE SHADOWY FORMS OF HORSES These scenes from a bivouac of McOlellans army, in 1862, reveal, in muchthe same spirit as Whitmans poem, the actual life of the soldier. At theend of a hard days march, officers and men were tired, and horses andmules were willing to be unhitched and to nibble on the fodder by thewagon-tongue, or in the rear of the vehicle. The teamsters, meanwhile,were gathered about the twinkling camp-fires that Whitman bringsbefore our eyes. Night will soon fall, and the army will pass into theland of dr


. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . .«>>^- THE SHADOWY FORMS OF HORSES These scenes from a bivouac of McOlellans army, in 1862, reveal, in muchthe same spirit as Whitmans poem, the actual life of the soldier. At theend of a hard days march, officers and men were tired, and horses andmules were willing to be unhitched and to nibble on the fodder by thewagon-tongue, or in the rear of the vehicle. The teamsters, meanwhile,were gathered about the twinkling camp-fires that Whitman bringsbefore our eyes. Night will soon fall, and the army will pass into theland of dreams. Little it realizes the dangers of the road to


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