. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . arks the sigh of a soul that is passing to its reward. Thescene is Maryes Heights after the battle of Spotsylvania, May 11, ISQi. The glory of the battle, theglitter of arms, the crash of artillery and musketry, and the paeans of victory echoing over the land after agreat battle has been won are not all of war. The maimed and wounded soldiers who have fallen beforethe hail of shells and canister and grape realize at what price these paeans are bought. With limbs torna
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . arks the sigh of a soul that is passing to its reward. Thescene is Maryes Heights after the battle of Spotsylvania, May 11, ISQi. The glory of the battle, theglitter of arms, the crash of artillery and musketry, and the paeans of victory echoing over the land after agreat battle has been won are not all of war. The maimed and wounded soldiers who have fallen beforethe hail of shells and canister and grape realize at what price these paeans are bought. With limbs tornand bodies lacerated, they sometimes lay suffering excruciating torments for hours or even days after thebattle had been fought. An insensible soldier passed over for dead by the ambulance corps, or lying unseenin a thicket, might recover consciousness to be tortured with thirst and driven frantic with the fear thathe would be permanently forgotten and left there to die. Incongruous, but of interest to posterity, is thephotographers tripod on the right of the picture in front of the wounded lying in the shade of the IN THE WAKE OF GRANTS ADVANCE This picture shows a warehouse on the hanks of the Rappahannock to which wounded have been conveyed after the slaughter in theWilderness. Grant hail attempted to oust the Army of Northern Virginia from its position by a flank movement n succeeded in anticipating the movement, and once again Grant hurled the long-suffering Army of the Potomac upon the unbrokengray lines of the Army of Northern Virginia. Two assaults were made on the evening of Max- 11th, hut the position could not hecarried even at a loss of five or six thousand men. The neighboring buildings were filled with the Federal and Confederate the factory above arc the tents of a division hospital corps which have been found inadequate to care for so many can be seen on every floor of the big structure. The hospital orderlies
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