. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . jiieces,left Alexandria, Tennessee, December 22, 1862, his objectbeing to destroy the Louisville and Xashville Railroad andinterrupt Rosecrans comminiications with the North. Four hundred unarmed men did duty as horse-holdersuntil arms were cajjtured. There were no sabers. The vet-erans of a year or more had provided themselves with one ortwo Colts army jjistols; a few had cavalry carbines, Avhile alarger number were armed Avith double-barreled greater po
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . jiieces,left Alexandria, Tennessee, December 22, 1862, his objectbeing to destroy the Louisville and Xashville Railroad andinterrupt Rosecrans comminiications with the North. Four hundred unarmed men did duty as horse-holdersuntil arms were cajjtured. There were no sabers. The vet-erans of a year or more had provided themselves with one ortwo Colts army jjistols; a few had cavalry carbines, Avhile alarger number were armed Avith double-barreled greater portion carried long-barreled rifles of the Enfield,Austrian, or Belgian make. ]Morgans troopers were mostly young men from eighteento thirty-five years old, well momited. at home on horsel) there were no better fighters in the world. They started with three days cooked rations. Every mancarried his own ammunition, two extra horseshoes, twelvenails, one blanket in addition to the saddle-blanket, and an oil-cloth or overcoat. Witli the exception of the artillery whicliwas double-teamed, there was nothing on wheels. J,. COPTRrGMT, 13-, I. K£VE» OF REVIEWS CO. A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE CAVALRY IX THE ^EST Old cavalrymen find this photograph absorbing; itbrings to life again the varied equipment of the Con-federate cavalrymen in the West. The only uni-formity is foimd with respect to carbines, wliich arecarried by all except the officers. Three of the menin the center have pistols thrust in their belts, readyfor a fight at close quarters. Some have beltscrossed over their chests, some a single belt, stillothers none at all. One of the single belts acts as acarbine sling, the other as a canteen strap. Horseholders have fallen out with the chargers siblebehind the line of men. The Western photographers,Armstead & Carter, were the artists enterprisingenough to secure this photograph. The territorytheir travels covered in Mississippi and Tennesseechanged hands so frequently that fo
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