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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rapidly as the arsenals couldturn them out. These difficulties were supplemented, however,by certain formidable weapons of Avar privately contributed—revolvers, and a most truculent species of double-edged cutlass,fashioned by blacksmiths from farriers rasps, and carried inwooden scabbards bound with wire, like those affected by theFilipino volunteer. They proved very useful later on forcutting brush, but, so far as known, were quite guiltless ofbloodshed, and soon went to the rear when the stress of activecampaign develoj)ed the need of every possible reduction ofimpedimenta. One or two marches sufficed to convince thesoldier that his authorized weapon and other equipment werequite as much as he cared to transport. The old-pattern musket alone weighed in the neighbor-hood of ten pounds, which had a way of increasing in directratio with the miles covered, until every screw and bolt seemedto weigh a pound at least. But I anticipate somewhat—we were really in our 1401 Uk?S^ PI)1 *4P
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COMPANY A, FIFTH GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY The photograph shows sixty-one of the ninety-five Southerners who next day—May 11, 1861—becameCompany A of the Fifth Georgia. An early photographer darkened the coats of the men in the pictures,but it was not tampered with otherwise, and the hopeful Georgians appear precisely as they looked justfifty years before the publication of this volume. Their attitudes are stiff, their bearing unmilitary in somerespects; but glowing in their hearts was that rare courage which impelled them to the defense of their homes,and the withstanding through four long years of terrible blows from the better equipped and no less de-termined Northern armies, which finally outnumbered them hopelessly. As early as January 2-i, 18G1, theClinch Rifles had taken part in warfare—the capture of the arsenal at Augusta. By July 1, 1862, Augustaand Richmond County had twenty-four companies, more than two full regiments, in the field. Out ofa white population of ten t

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