The Civil War through the camera - hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history (1912) (14576214978)

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Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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)::■ - THE SUMMIT OF SLAUGHTER Maryes House marked the center of the Confederate position on the Heights, before which the Federalsfell three deep in one of the bravest and bloodiest assaults of the war. The eastern boundary of the Maryeestate was a retaining wall, along which ran a sunken road; on the other side of this was a stone wall, shoulderhigh, forming a perfect infantry parapet. Here two brigades of Confederates were posted and on the crestabove them were the supporting batteries, while the slope between was honeycombed with the rifle-pitsof the sharpshooters, one of which is seen in the picture. Six times did the Federals, raked by the deadlyfire of the Washington Artillery, advance to within a hundred yards of the sunken road, only to be drivenback by the rapid volleys of the Confederate infantry concealed there. Less than three of every five menin Hancocks division came back from their charge on these death-dealing heights. The complete re-pulse of the day and the terrif