. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . e the first blow ofwhat the new general had promised would be a series of victories. As this i)icture was taken, the NewYork Herald wagon stands plainly in view to the left of the porch; the newspaper correspondents preparedto despatch big stories. John Pope was the leader whose swift success in capturing New Madrid and CO. POPES HEADQUARTERS DURING THE BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN Island Number Ten in the Mississippi campaign formed a brilliant contrast, in the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . e the first blow ofwhat the new general had promised would be a series of victories. As this i)icture was taken, the NewYork Herald wagon stands plainly in view to the left of the porch; the newspaper correspondents preparedto despatch big stories. John Pope was the leader whose swift success in capturing New Madrid and CO. POPES HEADQUARTERS DURING THE BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN Island Number Ten in the Mississippi campaign formed a brilliant contrast, in the popular mind, to the failureof the Eastern armies in their attemj)! upon Richmond. Pope himself proclaimed, I have come to you fromthe West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. So he set out for the front with head-quarters in the saddle. He could not know what the world later learned—that Robert E. Lee and Stone-wall Jackson were generals before whose genius few opponents, however brave, could make so it was too late when Pope heard the cannonading from the Hudson house on the 9th of A HALT ON THE DAY OF BATTLE The 9th of August, 18(1-2. A sultry day in old Virginia. The brook rippling toward the Rappahannockcools the hoofs of the battery horses at halt, tired with rushing their heavy guns south from Culpeper CourtHouse. The cannoneers lolling on horseback and caisson-seats look as if they too like to rest in the gaze at llu- in(l<y wagoners across the creek, at ease while their horses feed. Least war-like of all seemsthe queer wagon to the right. They stare at it, and the civilian beside it, and at his companion wielding the
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