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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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A GUN AND GUNNERS THAT REPULSED PICKETTS CHARGE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TREASURED NEARLY HALF A CENTURY BY THE CAPTAIN OF THIS BATTERY This photograph of a gun and cannoneers that helped to check Picketts charge at Gettysburg waspreserved for nearly fifty years by Andrew Cowan, captain of the battery containing this gun. Fromthat bloody angle on Cemetery Ridge his life was spared, although the commanders of the batteriesto right and left of him. Lieutenant Alonzo H. dishing and Captain James Rorty, both were killed.At the very height of the action. General Henry J. Hunt, chief of artillery of the army, rode into thebattery and fired his revolver at the oncoming gray line, exclaiming: Seeem! See em! See em!A moment later. Cowan ordered his guns to cease firing, for fear of injuring the men of the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania at the wall in their front. The Sixty-ninth suddenly swung to the right, leavingthe guns uncovered. The Confederates came rushing on from behind a slight elevation, coveredw

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