. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . eful capture for Shermans army, whose supply of artillery had been somewhat limited during the siege, and stillfurther reduced by the necessity to fortify Atlanta. On the march to the sea Sherman took with him only sixty-five Negro refugees in the lower picture recall an embarrassment of the march to the sea. Negroes of all sizes flocked in the armyspath and stayed there, a picturesque procession, holding tightly to the skirts of the army wh
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . eful capture for Shermans army, whose supply of artillery had been somewhat limited during the siege, and stillfurther reduced by the necessity to fortify Atlanta. On the march to the sea Sherman took with him only sixty-five Negro refugees in the lower picture recall an embarrassment of the march to the sea. Negroes of all sizes flocked in the armyspath and stayed there, a picturesque procession, holding tightly to the skirts of the army which they believed had come for the solepurpose of setting them free. The cavalcade of Negroes soon became so numerous that Sherman became anxious for his armys sus-tenance, and finding an old gray-haired black at Covington, Sherman explained to him carefully that if the Negroes continued to swarmafter the army it would fail in its purpose and they would not get their freedom. Sherman believed that the old man spread thisnews to the slaves along the line of march, and in part saved the army from being overwhelmed by the NEGROES FLOCKING IN THE ARMYS PATH
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