. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . FIELD TELEGRAPH STATION IN OPERATION PONTOON BRTDGE ACROSS JAMES RIVER I F any one attempts to hauldown the American flag,shoot him on the spot!The order rang from townto town. Old Glory waved in thebreeze defiantly. The flag of theConfederacy will be hoisted overWashington within sixty days, camethe retort from the far South. Onlyover our dead bodies. replied themen of the Xorth. The NationalGovernment discovered that a con-spiracy had been in operation to de-nude its armories and weaken its de-fenses

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. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . FIELD TELEGRAPH STATION IN OPERATION PONTOON BRTDGE ACROSS JAMES RIVER I F any one attempts to hauldown the American flag,shoot him on the spot!The order rang from townto town. Old Glory waved in thebreeze defiantly. The flag of theConfederacy will be hoisted overWashington within sixty days, camethe retort from the far South. Onlyover our dead bodies. replied themen of the Xorth. The NationalGovernment discovered that a con-spiracy had been in operation to de-nude its armories and weaken its de-fenses. Political influences had se-cretly disarmed the incoming admin-istration, scattering the regular armyin helpless and hopeless positions farfrom the seat of the Government andbeyond its call in an forts had been dismantledand the munitions from Northernarsenals had been dispatched toSouthern vantage grounds to be usedin case of necessity. The treasury-had been depleted and the Govern-ment was on the verge of of the historic old states of theUnion had

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