. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^•^ ^^^x^. THE FIRST INDIANA HEAVY AKTILLKKY AT BATON ROUGE. PHOTOGRAPHS THAT FURNISHED VALUABLE SECRET-SERVICE INFORMATION TO THE CONFEDERATES The clearest and most trustworthy evidence of an opponents strength is of course an actual photograph. Such evidence, inspite of the early stage of the art and the difficulty of running in chemical supplies on orders to trade, was supplied the Con-federate leaders in the Southwest by Lytic, the Baton Rouge photographer—really a member of the Confederate secret are photographs o
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^•^ ^^^x^. THE FIRST INDIANA HEAVY AKTILLKKY AT BATON ROUGE. PHOTOGRAPHS THAT FURNISHED VALUABLE SECRET-SERVICE INFORMATION TO THE CONFEDERATES The clearest and most trustworthy evidence of an opponents strength is of course an actual photograph. Such evidence, inspite of the early stage of the art and the difficulty of running in chemical supplies on orders to trade, was supplied the Con-federate leaders in the Southwest by Lytic, the Baton Rouge photographer—really a member of the Confederate secret are photographs of the First Indiana Heavy Artillery (formerly the Twenty-first Indiana Infantry), showing its strengthand position on the arsenal grounds at Baton Rouge. As the Twenty-first Indiana, the regiment had been at Baton Rouge duringthe first Federal occupation, and after the fall of Port Hudson it returned there for garrison duty. Little did its officers suspect thatthe quiet man photographing the batteries at drill was about to convey the information beyond their lines to their opponents. % amsMsmzsm hr doufrforratr %vm\
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