. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . % INIay 30th, he gave orders that his army shouldbe ready to move at daybreak. That night the windows of heaven seemed to have beenopened and the fountains of the deep broken up. Thestorm fell like a deluge. It was the most violent storm thathad swept over that region for a generation. Throughoutthe night the tempest raged The thunderbolts rolled with-out cessation. The sky was white with the electric flashes. The lowlands became a ;28S] The earth was thoroughly drenc
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . % INIay 30th, he gave orders that his army shouldbe ready to move at daybreak. That night the windows of heaven seemed to have beenopened and the fountains of the deep broken up. Thestorm fell like a deluge. It was the most violent storm thathad swept over that region for a generation. Throughoutthe night the tempest raged The thunderbolts rolled with-out cessation. The sky was white with the electric flashes. The lowlands became a ;28S] The earth was thoroughly drenched m ij- m ■C. (_ nfiyi lyld by PatHot Pub. Co. CUSTER AND HIS CLASSMATE—NOW A CONFEDERATE PRISONER Friends and even relatives who had been enUsted on opposite sides in the great Civnl War met each other during its vicissitudes uponthe battle-field. Here, caught by the camera, is one of the many instances. On the left sits Lieutenant J. B. Washington, C. S. A., whowas an aide to General Johnston at Fair Oaks. Beside him sits Lieutenant George A. Custer, of the Fifth U. S. Cavalry, aide onMcCIellans staff, later famous cavalry general and Indian fighter. Both men were West Point graduates and had attended the mili-tary academy together. On the morning of May 31, 1802, at Fair Oaks, Lieutenant Washington was captured by some of GeneralCaseys pickets. Later in the day his former classmate ran across him and a dramatic meeting was thus recorded by the camera. atr (iaivs—3ltt i>tijlit of Itrltmoult •*• -^ v,nrrm,ym/mmm
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