. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . WHERE A SAILOR TOOK A PULPIT Copyright by Review of Reviews Co* The peaceful Sunday in Cairo, Illinois, upon which Flag Officer Foote returned from the capture of Fort Henry. Being a deeply relig-ious man, the .Admiral with his crews marched to the Presbyterian church to attend service. The steeple is just visible at the right ofthe picture. The minister, taken suddenly ill, did not arrive, and the Admiral conducted the services himself. If a sailor on horse-back is an incongruity, one in the pulpit did not prove to be so on this o
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . WHERE A SAILOR TOOK A PULPIT Copyright by Review of Reviews Co* The peaceful Sunday in Cairo, Illinois, upon which Flag Officer Foote returned from the capture of Fort Henry. Being a deeply relig-ious man, the .Admiral with his crews marched to the Presbyterian church to attend service. The steeple is just visible at the right ofthe picture. The minister, taken suddenly ill, did not arrive, and the Admiral conducted the services himself. If a sailor on horse-back is an incongruity, one in the pulpit did not prove to be so on this occasion. Foote preached an impressive impromptu sermonfrom John xiv, 1: Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in THE DEFENDERS OF GRANTS LAST LINE AT SHILOII These heavy guns when this picture was taken had not been moved from the actual position they heUl in the afternoon of tlie battleof Shiloh, April 6, 1862. In one of the backward movements of Grants forces in the afternoon of that day General Prentiss, isolatedby the retirement of troops in his flanks, fought till overwhelmed by the Confederates, then surrendered the remnant of his di\ by this success General Bragg ordered a last desperate charge in an effort to turn the left of the re-formed Federal swept the Confederates toward a grim line of batteries, which Colonel Webster, of Grants staff, had ranged along the top ofthe bluff from a quarter to a half a mile from Pittsburg Landing. The line of artillery overlooked a deep ravine opening into the
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