. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . y ■. COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIEB AS HE REALLY LOOKED AND MARCHED There is nothing to suggest military brilliancy about this squad. Attitudes are as prosaic as uniforms are unpicturesque. The onlyman standing with military correctness is the officer at the left-hand end. Bui this was the material out of which was developed thesoldier who could average sixteen miles a day for weeks on end. and do, on occasion, his thirty miles through Vi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . y ■. COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIEB AS HE REALLY LOOKED AND MARCHED There is nothing to suggest military brilliancy about this squad. Attitudes are as prosaic as uniforms are unpicturesque. The onlyman standing with military correctness is the officer at the left-hand end. Bui this was the material out of which was developed thesoldier who could average sixteen miles a day for weeks on end. and do, on occasion, his thirty miles through Virginia mud and his foi tymiles over a hard Pennsylvania highway. Sixteen miles a day does not seem far to a single pedestrian, lull marching with a regimentbears but little relation to a solitary stroll along a sunny road. It is a far different matter to trudge along carrying a heavy burden,choked by the dust kicked up by hundreds of men tramping along in front, and sweltering in the sun—or trudge still more drearilyalong in a pelting rain which added pounds to a soaked and clinging uniform, and caused the soldiers to slip a
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