. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . L COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. THE HARPERS WEEKLY ARTIST SKETCHING THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. 18G3 Photo-engraving was unknown in the days of 1801 to ;, and it remained for the next generation to make possible the reproductionin book form of the many valuable photographs taken by Matthew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner in the North, and George , J. D. Edwards, A. D. Lytle, and others in the South. The public had to be content with wood-cuts, after sk
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . L COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. THE HARPERS WEEKLY ARTIST SKETCHING THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. 18G3 Photo-engraving was unknown in the days of 1801 to ;, and it remained for the next generation to make possible the reproductionin book form of the many valuable photographs taken by Matthew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner in the North, and George , J. D. Edwards, A. D. Lytle, and others in the South. The public had to be content with wood-cuts, after sketches and drawingsmade by the correspondents in the held. On this page appears A. , an active staff artist, in war and peace, for Harpers Tyj WATJD AT HEADQUARTERS, 1801, V-; » K m later in the war up the James to City Point, thence by mulewagon or military railway to the neighboring camps. Theentire army could always he freshly clothed and newly shodbefore it set forth on a campaign, to the end that the wagontrain had little to carry hut food and ammunition. The seasoned soldier bore with him none of the white tent-age that looked so picturesque among the green hills aroundWashington. The little tente dabri of the French service,speedily dubbed the pup tent by our soldier humorists, wasall he needed in the field, and generally all he had. So, too,with his kitchen and its appliances. The huge pots, pans,kettles, and coffee-boilers seen about the winter cantonmentswere left behind when the army took the field, and every manhis own cook became the rule. Each man had speedilylearned how to prepare his own coffee in his own battered tinmug, season it with brown sugar, and swallow it hot. Eachman knew the practical use of a
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