. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . Leonidas Polk, commandingone of Johnstons army corps, with Johnston himself and Hardee,another corps commander, was studying Shermans position at atense moment of the latters advance around Pine three Confederates stood upon the rolling height, where thecenter of Johnstons army awaited theFederal attack. They could see thecolumns in blue pushing east of them;the smoke and rattle of musketry as thepickets were driven in; and the bust
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . Leonidas Polk, commandingone of Johnstons army corps, with Johnston himself and Hardee,another corps commander, was studying Shermans position at atense moment of the latters advance around Pine three Confederates stood upon the rolling height, where thecenter of Johnstons army awaited theFederal attack. They could see thecolumns in blue pushing east of them;the smoke and rattle of musketry as thepickets were driven in; and the bustlewith which the Federal advance guardfelled trees and constructed trenches attheir very feet. On the lonely height thethree figures stood conspicuous. A Fed-eral order was given the artillery toopen upon any men in gray who lookedlike officers reconnoitering the new posi-tion. So, while Hardee was pointing tohis comrade and his chief the danger ofone of his divisions which the Federaladvance was cutting off, the bishop-general was struck in the chest by acannon shot. Thus the Confederacy losta leader of unusual influence. Although. a bishop of the Episcopal Church, Polk was educated atWest Point. When he threw in his lot with the Confederacy,thousands of his fellow-Louisianians followed him. A few daysbefore the battle of Pine Mountain, as he and General Hoodwere riding together, the bishop was told by his companionthat he had never been received into the communion of a churchand was begged that the rite might be performed. ImmediatelyPolk arranged the ceremony. At Hoods headquarters, by thelight of a tallow candle, with a tin basinon the mess table for a baptismal font,and with Hoods staff present as wit-nesses, all was ready. Hood, with aface like that of an old crusader. stoodbefore the bishop. Crippled by woundsat Gaines Mill. Gettysburg, and Chicka-mauga, he could not kneel, but bentforward on his crutches. The bishop, infull uniform of the Confederate army,administered t
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