. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . s»*; m. COMPANY A, FIFTH GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY The photograph shows sixty-one of the ninety-five Southerners who next day—May 11, 1861—becameCompany A of the Fifth Georgia. An early photographer darkened the coats of the men in the pictures,but it was not tampered with otherwise, and the hopeful Georgians appear precisely as they looked justfifty years before the publication of this volume. Their attitudes are stiff, their bearing unmilitary in somerespects; but glowing in their hearts was that rare courage which impelled them
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . s»*; m. COMPANY A, FIFTH GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY The photograph shows sixty-one of the ninety-five Southerners who next day—May 11, 1861—becameCompany A of the Fifth Georgia. An early photographer darkened the coats of the men in the pictures,but it was not tampered with otherwise, and the hopeful Georgians appear precisely as they looked justfifty years before the publication of this volume. Their attitudes are stiff, their bearing unmilitary in somerespects; but glowing in their hearts was that rare courage which impelled them to the defense of their homes,and the withstanding through four long years of terrible blows from the better equipped and no less de-termined Northern armies, which finally outnumbered them hopelessly. As early as January 24, 1861, theClinch Rifles had taken part in warfare—the capture of the arsenal at Augusta. By July 1, 1862, Augustaand Richmond County had twenty-four companies, more than two full regiments, in the field. Out ofa white population of ten th
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