. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BUILDING A CAVALRY CAMP Waving sabers in battle, as the cavalryman soon learned, consumed but a small part of his time ascompared with handling pickaxes and felling trees. In this photograph the cavalry detail at the head-quarters of General Adelbert Ames is breaking ground to build a camp. The men have just arrived, andthe horses are still saddled. A barrel is supplying draft for a temporary fireplace, and even the dogis alert and excited. The faces gazing out of the photograph below are of men who more than once havelooked death
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BUILDING A CAVALRY CAMP Waving sabers in battle, as the cavalryman soon learned, consumed but a small part of his time ascompared with handling pickaxes and felling trees. In this photograph the cavalry detail at the head-quarters of General Adelbert Ames is breaking ground to build a camp. The men have just arrived, andthe horses are still saddled. A barrel is supplying draft for a temporary fireplace, and even the dogis alert and excited. The faces gazing out of the photograph below are of men who more than once havelooked death in the face and have earned their comparative rest. A pleasant change from active serviceis this camp of Companies C and D of the First Massachusetts Cavalry. They had served at Antietam, atKellys Ford, at Brandy Station, at Gettysburg, in the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, and in a host ofminor operations before they were assigned to provost duty near the end of the A RFST IN THE WOODS Couriers
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