. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ns up. Away goes Bradys horse, scattering chemicals and plates. The gun in tlic foregroundis ready to send a shell across the open ground, but Captain Cooper reserves his fire. Brady, seeing his camera is uninjured, recallshis assistant and takes the other photographs, moving his instrument a little to the rear. And the man who saw it then, sees it allagain to-day just as it was. He is even able to pick out many of the men by name. Their faces come back to him. Turning thepage, may be seen Captain James H. Cooper, leaning on his sw
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ns up. Away goes Bradys horse, scattering chemicals and plates. The gun in tlic foregroundis ready to send a shell across the open ground, but Captain Cooper reserves his fire. Brady, seeing his camera is uninjured, recallshis assistant and takes the other photographs, moving his instrument a little to the rear. And the man who saw it then, sees it allagain to-day just as it was. He is even able to pick out many of the men by name. Their faces come back to him. Turning thepage, may be seen Captain James H. Cooper, leaning on his sword, and Lieutenant Alcorn, on the extreme right. In the photographabove is Lieutenant Miller, back of the gun. Lieutenant .lames A. Gardner was the man who saw all this, and in the picture on thepreceding page he appears seated on the trail of the gun to the left in the act of sighting the gun. The other officers shown in thispicture were no longer living when, in 1911, he described the actors in the drama that the glass plate had preserved forty-six JUST AS THE CAilERA CAUGHT THEM General Warrens Corps had arrived in front of Petersburg on the 17tl> of June, 186-t, and Battery B of the First Pennsylvania LightArtillery was put into position near the Avery house. Before them the Confederates were entrenched, with Beauregard in com-mand. On the 17th, under cover of darkness, the Confederates fell back to their third line, just \isible beyond the woods to the left itthe first picture. Early the next morning Battery B was advanced to the line of entrenchments shown above, and a sharp interchangeof artillery fire took place in the afternoon. So busy were both sides throwing up entrenchments and building forts and lunettes thatthere had been very little interchange of compliments in the way of shells or bullets at this point until Photographer Bradys presenceand the gathering of men of Battery B at their posts called forth the well-pointed salute. Men soon became accusto
Size: 1864px × 1340px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormillerfrancistrevelya, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910
