. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Copyriglit by Keiivw of Co. ARTILLERY REGULARS BEFORE CHANCELLORSVILLE possible ill the Civil War. Yet look at this Lnioii ])attery, taken hy the shore of the Rappahannoek, justbefore the battle of Chancellorsville. Action, movement, portraiture are shown. We can hear the officerstanding in front giving his orders; his figure leaning slightly forward is tense with s])oken words of com-mand. The cannoneers, resting or ramming home the charges, are magnificent types of the men whomade the Army of the Potomac—the army doo
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Copyriglit by Keiivw of Co. ARTILLERY REGULARS BEFORE CHANCELLORSVILLE possible ill the Civil War. Yet look at this Lnioii ])attery, taken hy the shore of the Rappahannoek, justbefore the battle of Chancellorsville. Action, movement, portraiture are shown. We can hear the officerstanding in front giving his orders; his figure leaning slightly forward is tense with s])oken words of com-mand. The cannoneers, resting or ramming home the charges, are magnificent types of the men whomade the Army of the Potomac—the army doomed to suffer, a few days after tliis i)icture w-as taken, its crush-ing repulse by the famous flanking charge of Stonewall Jackson; yet the army which kept faitli andultimately became invincible in the greatest civil war of history. Within sixty days after the Chancellors-ville defeat the troops engaged won a signal triumph over the self-same opponents at TIIK ILANklNG Gl X This rc?iiark;ilily s|)iiitc(l photiisraph iif BattiTV D, Second I. , was. accuriliiif, to the photographers account, takenjust as the battery was loading to engage with the order, cannoneers to your posts. had just been given,and the men, running up. called to the photographer to hurry his wagon out of the way unless he wished to gain a place for hisname in the list of casualties In June. 1863, the Sixth Corps hadmade its third successful crossing of the Rappahannock, as theadvance of Hookers movement against Lee. Battery D atonce took position with other artillery out in the fields near the
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