. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FEDERAL ARTILLERY NEARING CEDAR MOUXTALN clumsy apparatus for that newly discovered art—pliotography. Little do the actors in this quiet interludeimagine that by half-past two this afternoon the Federal batteries will plunge into range of a flaring crescenttwo miles long—Stonewall Jacksons guns; that those guns will roar destruction upon them for threehours without ceasing; and that before another sun rises, two thousand of Popes army will lie dead andwounded beside thirteen hundred men in gray, upon the battle-ground of Cedar Moun
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FEDERAL ARTILLERY NEARING CEDAR MOUXTALN clumsy apparatus for that newly discovered art—pliotography. Little do the actors in this quiet interludeimagine that by half-past two this afternoon the Federal batteries will plunge into range of a flaring crescenttwo miles long—Stonewall Jacksons guns; that those guns will roar destruction upon them for threehours without ceasing; and that before another sun rises, two thousand of Popes army will lie dead andwounded beside thirteen hundred men in gray, upon the battle-ground of Cedar McDowells headquarters Manassas. July 8, 18(>2. General McDowell, who liad been so unfortunate in the first great battle of the war, was made commanderof the Third Corps of the newly created Army of ^i^ginia under Pope. McDowell had his headquarters at Manassas. He movedsouthward during this month with Popes army toward Gordonville. But Lee, by his brilliant and daring tactics, drove the Federaltroo])K liack until a tliree-days liattle was fought in the vicinity of the residence which the camera has preserved for us in thispicture. ilcDowell once more had the chagrin of seeing a beaten army falling back on Washington.
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