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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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THE CONQUERED BANNER—WAVING FREE IN 61The first Confederate flag made in Augusta, Georgia, swells in the May breeze of 1861. It has two red bars,with a white in the middle, and a union of blue with seven stars. The men who so proudly stand beforeit near the armory al Macon are the Clinch Rifles, forming Company A of the Fifth Georgia Infantry. Theorganization was completed on the next day—May 11th. It first went to Pensacola. From after the battleof Shiloh to .Inly. 1S(H, it Mixed in the Army of Tennessee, when it was sent to the Georgia coast, laterserving under General Joseph E. Johnston in the final campaign in the Carolinas. It was conspicuousat Chickamauga, where its colonel commanded a brigade. His account of the action on September1S(>:;, is well worth quoting: The brigade, with the battery in the center, moved forward in splendid siabout loo yards, when the enemy opened a galling fire from the front and left flank, enfilading the en1 (244)
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVrEW OF REVIEWS CO. •ONCE TEN THOUSANDS HAILED IT GLADLYline with canister and small-anus. The engagement now became terrific and the position of my brigadeextremely critical. The troops, however, stood nobly to the work before them, and, steadily advancing,surmounted the hill on which the enemys breastworks were, the battery moving with the line, and renderingeffective service. The enemy were driven from their breastworks, and Brigadier-General Maneys brigadecoming up at this opportune moment, charged them, and the contest was over. At daylight on Mondaymorning the enemy was found to have sought safety in flight under the cover of darkness. During thebattle the regiment lost 194 men, a percentage of 54.95. The next highest recorded loss was 42.78. Ryanswords. Those who once unrolled it. can appropriately be quoted under this spirited scene. And anotherphrase, Cold and dead are lying now, fits loo sadly well the careers of these volunteers from Georgia.

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