. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE FINISHED PRODUCT It is winter-time before Petersburg. Grants army, after the assault of October 27th, has settled down to the waiting game that canhave but one result. Look at the veterans in this picture of 64—not a haggard or hungry face in all this group of a hundred or clad, well-fed, in the prime of manly vigor, smiling in confidence that the end is almost now in sight, these are the men whohold the thirty-odd miles of Federal trenches that hem in Lees ragged army. Outdoor life and constant roughing it affects


. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE FINISHED PRODUCT It is winter-time before Petersburg. Grants army, after the assault of October 27th, has settled down to the waiting game that canhave but one result. Look at the veterans in this picture of 64—not a haggard or hungry face in all this group of a hundred or clad, well-fed, in the prime of manly vigor, smiling in confidence that the end is almost now in sight, these are the men whohold the thirty-odd miles of Federal trenches that hem in Lees ragged army. Outdoor life and constant roughing it affects menvariously. There was many a young clerk from the city, slender of limb, lacking in muscle, a man only in the embryo, who finished histhree or five years term of ser\ice with a constitution of iron and sinews like whip-cords. Strange to say, it was the regiments fromup-country and the backwoods, lumbermen and farmers, who after a short time in camp began to show most the effect of hardship. , REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. INIOX VETERANS OF TRENCH AND FIELD BEFORE PETERSBURG—1864 and sickness. They had been used to regular hours, meals at certain times, and always the same kind of food—their habits hadbeen formed, their sleep had not been interfered with; their stomachs, by which they could tell the time of daj, rebelled at beingobliged to go empty, their systems had to learn new tricks. But the city recruit, if possessed of no physical ailment or chronictrouble, seemed to thrive and expand in the open air—he was a healthy exotic that, when transplanted, adapted itself to the newsoil with surprising vigor—being cheated of his sleep, and forced to put up with the irregularities of camp life was not such a shockfor him as for the to bed with the chickens and up with the lark countryman. This is no assuming of facts—it is the result ofexperience and record. But here are men of city, farm, and backwoods who have become case-hardened to the rugged life. f ■ ■•• - -it


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