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LWAft I \v fN «t t The Photographic History of The Civil War In Ten Volumes i w £»"¥ DS ^ * !< W'Viwft'"*..tsSr^uAta. PH'^""* aXt* Ss^ MPORTANTTTLEGROUNOF THECIVIL WAR Actual Battlefields re indicated STATUTE MILES t t SO ______ 100 _____I SO cfiffl IBA a 0 t t f S B S TI A N N CI N CI ( ^ $ » • G The Photographic History // of The Civil War In Ten Volumes FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROBERT S. LANIER Managing Editor Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO> PREPARING FOR WAR—A CONFEDERATE PHOTOGRAPH OF '61 Florida Opens the Grim Game of War. On a sandy point at the entrance to Pensacola Bay over two hundred years ago, the Spaniards NEW YORK who so long held possession of what is now the Gulf coast of the United States had built a fort. On its site the United States Gov THE REVIEW or REVIEWS Co. ernment had erected a strong fortification called Fort Barrancas. Between this point and a low-lying sandy island directly opposite, any vessels going up to Pensacola must pass. On the western end of this island was the strongly built Fort Pickens. Early in 1861 1912 both forts were practically ungarrisoned. This remarkable picture, taken by the New Orleans photographer Edwards, in February, 1861, belongs to a series hitherto unpublished. Out of the deep shadows of the sally port we look into the glaring sunlight upon one of the earliest warlike moves. Here we see one of the heavy pieces of ordnance that were intended to defend the harbor from foreign foes, being shifted preparatory to being mounted on the rampart at Fort Barrancas, which, since January 12th, had been in possession of State troops. Fort Pickens, held by a mere handful of men under Lieutenant Slemmer, still flew the Stars and Stripes. But the move of State troops under orders from Governor Perry of Florida, in seizing Fort Barrancas and raising the State flag even before the shot that aroused the nation at Fort Surnter, may well be said to have helped force the crisis that was impending. The Photographic History I of The Civil War 1 In Ten Volumes Volume One I The Opening Battles Contributors WILLIAM H. TAFT GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM President of the United States Major, U. S. V. HENRY WYSHAM LANIER MARCUS J. WRIGHT Art Editor and Publisher Brigadier-General, C. S. A. EBEN SWIFT HENRY W. ELSON Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. A. Professor of History, Ohio University FRENCH E. CHADWICK JAMES BARNES Rear-Admiral, U. S. N. Author of "David G. Farragut" New York The Review of Reviews Co. 1912 II CONTENTS Map BATTLE GROUNDS OF THE CIVIL WAR Frontispiece PREPARING FOR WAB FOREWORDS GREETING .... 12 President Taft DEDICATION ... 13 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 14 The Publishers COPYRIGHT, litll, BY PATRIOT PUBLISHING Co., SPRINGFIELD, MASS. EDITORIAL INTRODUCTORY . 15 ALL EIGHTS RESEEVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION Francis Trevelyan Miller INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN Printed in .New York, U.S.A. PREFACES PHOTOGRAPHING THE CIVIL WAB 30 Henry Wysham Lanier THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD AS HISTORY 60 George Haven Putnam THE FEDERAL NAVY AND THE SOUTH French E. Chadwick RECORDS OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES 102 Marcus J. Wriglit THE STRATEGY OF THE CIVIL WAH LEADERS 112 Eben Swift Part I THE FIRST OF THE GREAT CAMPAIGNS 137 Henry W. Elson BULL RUN THE VOLUNTEERS FACE FIRE 142 [9] THE T E O W PRESS N E W Y O E K (Emttents Part II PAGE FOREWORDS DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ..... 171 THE FALL OF POET HENRY AND PORT DONELSON 178 Henry W. Elson GREETING FROM PRESIDENT TAFT SHILOH—THE FIRST GRAND BATTLE ...... 196 Henry W. Elson NEW MADRID AND ISLAND NUMBER TEN ..... 216 DEDICATION Henry W. Elson NEW ORLEANS—THE NAVY HELPS THE ARMY .... 226 James Barries ACKNOWLEDGMENT FORT PILLOW AND MEMPHIS—GUNBOATS AND BATTERIES 286 Henry W. Elson EDITORIAL INTRODUCTORY Part HI THE STRUGGLE FOE RICHMOND ...... 251 Henry W. Elson YORKTOWN—UP THE PENINSULA ....... 254 FAIR OAKS—IN SIGHT OF RICHMOND ...... 282 THE SHENANDOAH AND THE ALARM AT WASHINGTON 304 SEVEN DAYS—THE CONFEDERATE CAPITAL SAVED . 311 Part IV ENGAGEMENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR UP TO JULY, 1862 345 George L. Kilmer Map—THEATER OF CAMPAIGNS IN VIBGINIA ..... 369 PHOTOGRAPH DESCRIPTIONS THROUGHOUT THIS VOLUME James Barnes [10] THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON We have reached a point in this country when we can look back, not without love, not without intense pride, but without partisan passion, to the events of the Civil War. We have Betitcateti reached & point, I am glad to say, when the North can admire to the full the heroes of the South, and the South admire to FIFTY YEARS AFTER the full the heroes of the North. There is a monument in FORT SUMTER TO THE MEN IN BLUE AND GRAY Quebec that always cossended itself to me - a monument to com WHOSE VALOR AND DEVOTION memorate the battle of the Plains of Abraham. On one face HAVE BECOME THE of that beautiful structure is the name of Montcalm, and on PRICELESS HERITAGE the opposite side the name of Wolfe. That always seemed to OF A UNITED me to be the acme of what we ought to reach in this country; NATION and I am glad to say that in my own alma mater, Yale, we have established an association for the purpose of erecting within her academic precincts a memorial not to the Northern Yale men who died, nor to the Southern Yale men who died; but to the Yale men who died in the Civil War.
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