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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 FINISHED PRODUCT It is winter-time before Petersburg. Grants army, after the assault ..f October i7tli. has settle.l down to the waiting game that canhave luit one result. Look at the veterans in this picture of -64—not a haggard or hungry face in all this group of a hundred or more.Warmly clad, well-fed. in the prime of manly vigor, smiling in confi,lence that the end is almost now in sight, these are the men whohold Ih,. thirty-odd ,„il,-.s of F,.,l,.ral trenches that hem in Lees ragged army. Ouldoor lif,- ami .-onstant -roughing if affects Menvariously. There was many a, ><,ung clerk from the city, slender of li.nb, lacking in nuiscle, a man only in the embryo, who finish.-d histliree or five years term of service with a constitution of iron and sinews like whip-cords. Strange to say, it was the regiments fromup-eountry and the baekwoo,ls. lumbermen and farmers, who after a short tiine in camp began to show most the effect of hardship
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eviEW OF flEVIEWS CO. UNION VETERANS OF TRENCH AND FIELD BEFORE PETERSBURG—1861 and sickness. They had been used to regular hours, meals at certain times, and always the same kind of food—their habits hadbeen formed, their sleep had not been interfered with; their stomachs, by which they could tell the time of day, rebelled at beingobliged to go empty, their systems had to learn new tricks. But the city recruit, if possessed of no physical ailment or chronictrouble, seemed to thrive and expand in the open air—lie was a healthy exotic that, when transplanted, adapted itself to the newsoil with surprising vigor—being cheated of his sleep, and forced to put up with the irregularities of camp life was not such a shockfor him as for the to bed with the chickens and up with the lark countryman. This is no assuming of facts—it is the result ofexperience and record. But here are men of city, farm, and backwoods who have become case-hardened to the rugged life.

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