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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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Copyright by Review of lUvieivs Cu. A TRIUMPH OF THE WET-PLATE It seems almost impossible that tliis photograph could have been taken before the advent of modern pho-tographic apparatus, yet Mr. Gardners negative, made almost fifty years ago, might well furnish a strikingexhiliit in a modern photographic salon. The view is of Quarles Mill, on the North Anna River, Virginia.In grassy fields above the mill the tents of the headquarters of Grant and Meade were pitched for a dayor two during the march which culminated in the siege of Petersburg. Among the prisoners brought inwhile the army was here in camp was a woman clad in Confederate gray, apparently performing the dutiesof a scout. She was captured astride of a bony steed and asserted that she belonged to a battery of artillery.This wild creature, with her tangled black locks hanging down her neck, became the center of interest tothe idlers of the camp. At these she would occasionally throw stones with consideraljle accuracy, partic

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