. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . Washington. All through the strugglesof the summer of 1862 he had looked forward to the time whenhe could announce his decision to the people. But he could notdo it then. With the doubtful success of Federal arms, tomake such a bold step would have been a mockery and wouldhave defeated the very end he sought. The South had now struck its first desperate blow at thegateways to the North. By daring, almost unparalleled inwarfare, it had swung its courageous ar
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . Washington. All through the strugglesof the summer of 1862 he had looked forward to the time whenhe could announce his decision to the people. But he could notdo it then. With the doubtful success of Federal arms, tomake such a bold step would have been a mockery and wouldhave defeated the very end he sought. The South had now struck its first desperate blow at thegateways to the North. By daring, almost unparalleled inwarfare, it had swung its courageous army into a strategicalposition where with the stroke of fortune it might have ham-mered down the defenses of the National capital on the southand then sweep on a march of invasion into the North. TheNorthern soldiers had parried the blow. They had saved them-selves from disaster and had held back the tide of the Con-federacy as it beat against the Mason and Dixon line, forcingit back into the State of Virginia where the two mighty fight-ing bodies were soon to meet again in a desperate struggle forthe right-of-way at THE MEDIATOR President Lincolns Visit to the Camps at Antietam. October 8, 1862. Yearning for the speedy termination of the war. Lincoln came toview the Army of the Potomac, as he had done at Harrisons Landing. Puzzled to understand how Lee could have circumvented asuperior force on the Peninsula, he was now anxious to learn why a crushing blow had not been struck. Lincoln (after Gettysburg)expressed the same thought: Our army held the war in the hollow of their hand and they would not close it! On Lincolns rightstands Allan Pinkerton, the famous detective and organizer of the Secret Service of the army. At the Presidents left is GeneralJohn A. McClernand, soon to be entrusted by Lincoln with reorganizing military operations in the West.
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