. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . fe^:$2*3iMBJ BflU ■ T ^^H *•• rttir it? *il (MP5S5 i iiiir m i ».i-akMa^^m^ -Tfc. ■ - ^-r*^^. ESP /£!&*& ?*5 Si ^ - £3£ b*^.LVS5S»tt , REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE FIRST HISTORICAL PUBLICATION OF SCENES PHOTOGRAPHED WITHINTHE CONFEDERATE LINES, DURING THE CIVIL WAR. MAY BE FOUND IN THEILLUSTRATIONS TO THE CHAPTERS BY ADMIRAL FRENCH E. CHADWICK ANDGENERAL MARCUS J. WRIGHT, ON PAGES 86-110 OF VOLUME I. MORE OFSUCH PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS APPEAR IN VOLUME III,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . fe^:$2*3iMBJ BflU ■ T ^^H *•• rttir it? *il (MP5S5 i iiiir m i ».i-akMa^^m^ -Tfc. ■ - ^-r*^^. ESP /£!&*& ?*5 Si ^ - £3£ b*^.LVS5S»tt , REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE FIRST HISTORICAL PUBLICATION OF SCENES PHOTOGRAPHED WITHINTHE CONFEDERATE LINES, DURING THE CIVIL WAR. MAY BE FOUND IN THEILLUSTRATIONS TO THE CHAPTERS BY ADMIRAL FRENCH E. CHADWICK ANDGENERAL MARCUS J. WRIGHT, ON PAGES 86-110 OF VOLUME I. MORE OFSUCH PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS APPEAR IN VOLUME III,PAGES 169-171. WITH THE THREE CHAPTERS THAT FOLLOW ARE PRESENTEDAN EVEN LARGER NUMBER OF WAR-TIME CONFEDERATE PHOTOGRAPHS. ALLTHE SERIES ABOVE REFERRED TO WERE NEVER BEFORE REPRODUCED, OREVEN COLLECTED; IN FACT, THE VERY EXISTENCE OF SUCH FAITHFUL (ONTEMPORARY RECORDS REMAINED UNKNOWN TO MOST VETERANS AND HIS-TORIANS UNTIL THE PUBLICATION OF THIS PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. TI1KOPPORTUNITY THUS FURNISHED TO STUDY THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE CON-FEDERACY AS THEY CAMPED AND DRILLED AND PREPARED FOR WAR IS A VIVID GLIMPSE OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY—1861This spirited photograph by Edwards of New Orleans suggests more than volumes of history could tell ofthe enthusiasm, the hope, with which the young Confederate volunteers, with their queerly variegatedequipment, sprang to the defense of their land in (il. Around this locality in Florida some of the verv earliestoperations eentered. Fort MeRee and the adjacent batteries had passed into Confederate hands on January12, 1861, when Lieutenant Adam .1. Slemmer withdrew with his eighty-two men to Fort Pickens in Pensacola Harbor. The lack of eonventional military uniformity shown above must not be thought exceptional Con-doe]
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