. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THIS HERO IX GRAY WITH THE HEART OK COLD This portrait of a young Confederate volunteer caught the eye of the New York sculptor Ruckstuhl, while he wasdesigning the magnificent monument to be erected in Baltimore by the Maryland Society of the Daughters of theConfederacy. The photograph was taken in April, 1861, when the hoy soldier, Henry Howe (look, had been pro-moted at the age of seventeen from the ranks of Company I), First Tennessee Regiment, to a lieutenancy in
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THIS HERO IX GRAY WITH THE HEART OK COLD This portrait of a young Confederate volunteer caught the eye of the New York sculptor Ruckstuhl, while he wasdesigning the magnificent monument to be erected in Baltimore by the Maryland Society of the Daughters of theConfederacy. The photograph was taken in April, 1861, when the hoy soldier, Henry Howe (look, had been pro-moted at the age of seventeen from the ranks of Company I), First Tennessee Regiment, to a lieutenancy in Com-pany F of the Forty-fourth Tennessee, in li. Ii. Johnsons brigade At the outbreak of the war proper arms werescarcer in the Confederacy than uniforms Private Cooks trig costume contrasts sharply with the big hunting-knife and the old-fashioned pistol with its ramrod and percussion trigger His glance is direct and fearless; yethe is almost too young to look blood-thirsty, even with the lethal weapon thrust in his belt. Working in the spiritwhich Grady so eloquently describes, he continued to rise after the war was ove
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