. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . seor siege, and finally, the men doing this had always to con-sider the laying-aside of axe and spade, and, shouldering themusket, take their place on the firing-line, where they gave anaccount of themselves second to none of the combatant organ-izations. Such conditions of warfare were in striking contrastto those under which the great wars of Europe had beenfought, for in the campaigns of Frederick, of Napoleon, andof Moltke, practically every inch of the territory
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . seor siege, and finally, the men doing this had always to con-sider the laying-aside of axe and spade, and, shouldering themusket, take their place on the firing-line, where they gave anaccount of themselves second to none of the combatant organ-izations. Such conditions of warfare were in striking contrastto those under which the great wars of Europe had beenfought, for in the campaigns of Frederick, of Napoleon, andof Moltke, practically every inch of the territory was knownand mapped. Military operations took place where well-builtroads made travel easy; where permanent forts and walledcities were found, and fighting in swamps or on mountain-tops was unknown. In short, with the formal military sci-ence of the day, the American engineers so combined charac-teristic ingenuity and the lessons of civil life that the progressand success of the battling ranks were made possible underconditions never before encountered in a great war. The inception of the present Corps of Engineers in the. ^S ^MiFmm, % m m ^fe;
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