. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . A VAIN RIDE TO SAFETY During the retreat after Gaines Mill, McClellans army was straining every nerve to extricate itself and present a strong front toLee before he could strike a telling blow at its untenable position. Wagon trains were struggling across the almost impassable WhiteOak Swamp, while the troops were striving to hold Savages Station to protect the movement. Thither on flat cars were sent thewounded as we see them in the picture. The rear guard
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . A VAIN RIDE TO SAFETY During the retreat after Gaines Mill, McClellans army was straining every nerve to extricate itself and present a strong front toLee before he could strike a telling blow at its untenable position. Wagon trains were struggling across the almost impassable WhiteOak Swamp, while the troops were striving to hold Savages Station to protect the movement. Thither on flat cars were sent thewounded as we see them in the picture. The rear guard of the Army of the Potomac had hastily provided such field hospital facili-ties as they could. We see the camp near the railroad with the passing wagon trains in the lower picture. But attention to thesewounded men was, perforce, secondary to the necessity of holding the position. Their hopes of relief from their suffering were to beblighted. Lee was about to fall upon the Federal rear guard at Savages Station. Instead of to a haven of refuge, these men werebeing railroaded toward the field of carnage, where they must of necessity
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