. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . the Federals did not suspect it for some hours before nightfall the fighting had ceased. TheFederals remained in possession of the field and the Confed-erates were wading through the mud on the road to Corinth. It was a dreary march for the bleeding and battered Con-federate army. An eye-witness described it in the followinglanguage: I made a detour from the road on which the army wasretreating that I might travel faster and get ahead of the mainbody. In thi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . the Federals did not suspect it for some hours before nightfall the fighting had ceased. TheFederals remained in possession of the field and the Confed-erates were wading through the mud on the road to Corinth. It was a dreary march for the bleeding and battered Con-federate army. An eye-witness described it in the followinglanguage: I made a detour from the road on which the army wasretreating that I might travel faster and get ahead of the mainbody. In this ride of twelve miles alongside of the routedarmy, I saw more of human agony and woe than I trust I willever again be called upon to witness. The retreating hostwound along a narrow and almost impassable road, extendingsome seven or eight miles in length. Here was a line of wagonsloaded with wounded, piled in like bags of grain, groaningand cursing; ^^hile the mules plunged on in mud and waterbelly-deei), the water sometimes coming into the wagons. Nextcame a straggling regiment of infantry, pressing on past the no 186!2. *j 0. OJ o « — a M ^1 ej^ 3 *; H & c 1^ Sh 5J g t*- tn >i w rae: J &c g 5ii .a c rt c ^ 5;; W o X c nJ S3 rt 1 -o ^1^ irH o cn o 0; i c X:; t a ;^ oi o 0 « X -O o « 7 Oj ffi i en c w o i s z ^ 0 1—1 2 >i ^ 2 0^ 2 t^ -a c^ B C O *o c z ■&c t. cc c Ph ^ ST Q> ri rt 8 C/i 0/ (b 5 c -C S ■M S K fl D. 0 o o a E X 1 .2 o 2 >> 1-3 c: O J4 kJ C 1^ S 3 1^ O X 5j a 1- ^ X C ^ S m4 ^ a ^ c «3 01 ■a e ~ [A-l^J o a ia J2 a o C5 J 2 0 « ■? •2 -1 a jq _ 3 U a o _C en o hfi -^ a; aj a 0 c < CI 1;■n tc 1 a ^ co -o OJ o J3 m *^ o a. B1 a J3 tfl o It! C) -a ^ aO is rt -a-t-» 2
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