. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . to the black-hooded, broad-stepped,wooden frame wherein the foot kept warm and dry whateverthe weather. Only generals were wearing, with the second and thirdyears, the heavily frogged and braided overcoats of darkblue. Capes, ponchos, and cavalry surtouts were the choice ofthe line-officer, and the men of the ranks had no choice. Bythe time they had finished the second summer of the war, hadlater crossed the icy Rappahannock and vainly stormed theheights at Fredericksburg, and later still had followed Fight-ing Joe to Chancellorsvi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . to the black-hooded, broad-stepped,wooden frame wherein the foot kept warm and dry whateverthe weather. Only generals were wearing, with the second and thirdyears, the heavily frogged and braided overcoats of darkblue. Capes, ponchos, and cavalry surtouts were the choice ofthe line-officer, and the men of the ranks had no choice. Bythe time they had finished the second summer of the war, hadlater crossed the icy Rappahannock and vainly stormed theheights at Fredericksburg, and later still had followed Fight-ing Joe to Chancellorsville—and back—the pomps and vani-ties of soldier life had become things of the remote past; theyhad settled down to the stern realities of campaigning. It wasa seasoned, a veteran army that marched to Gettysburg andfor the first time fairly drove the Southern lines from thefield. Long before this the treasured colors were stained, faded,rent, and torn. Some had been riven to shreds in the stormof shot and shell along the Chickahominv, in front of the 30]. *-v^ V isigjSsE
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