. The photographic history of the civil . COPYRIGHT, 1 rniOT pub. co. WHERE LEE STOOD SUPREME—THE WILDERNESS IN 1864 From the point of view of the mil-itary student Lees consummatefeats of generalship were performedin the gloom of the this ground he presented an al-ways unbroken front against whichGrant dashed his battalions in were Lees lines here broken;the assailants must always shifttheir ground to seek a fresh oppor-tunity for assault. At this spot onthe battlefield of the Wilderness theopposing forees lay within twenty-four feet of each other all
. The photographic history of the civil . COPYRIGHT, 1 rniOT pub. co. WHERE LEE STOOD SUPREME—THE WILDERNESS IN 1864 From the point of view of the mil-itary student Lees consummatefeats of generalship were performedin the gloom of the this ground he presented an al-ways unbroken front against whichGrant dashed his battalions in were Lees lines here broken;the assailants must always shifttheir ground to seek a fresh oppor-tunity for assault. At this spot onthe battlefield of the Wilderness theopposing forees lay within twenty-four feet of each other all soldiers, too, had learned bythis 1864 campaign to earry outorders with judgment of their rank and file grew to be ex-cellent connoisseurs of the merits ofa position. If they only save afinger it will do some good, wasGeneral Longstreets reply, whenhis engineer officers complainedthat their work on Maryes Hillwas being spoiled by being builthigher by the gunners of the Wash-ington artillery—who had to fight. LEE IN THE FIELDTHE BEST KNOWN PORTRAIT behind them. Fortius reason thesignificance of the lines as shown inmany war maps is often very puz-zling to the students of to-day, whohave never seen the actual field ofoperations and have no other of the ground disputed by thecontending forces in our Civil Warwas quite unlike the popular con-ception of a battlefield, derivedfrom descriptions of European cam-paigns, or from portrayals of thesame, usually fanciful. For at thisvariety of warfare, Lee was amaster, as well as on the rollingopen plains of the Virginia portrait of Lee opposite wastaken during the campaign pre-ceding this test of the reproduction here is directlyfrom the photograph—tuken atLees first sitting in war-time, andhis only one in the field. Re-productions of this picture painted,engraved, and lithographed werewidely circulated after the likeness was much impaired.
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