The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782666213)
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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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COWAN AND HIS MEN, MAY, 1862, JUST AFTER THE FIRST FIGHT These four officers of the First. New York Independent Battery seated in front of their tent, in camp on theleft hank of the Chiekahominy River, look like veterans, yet a year of warfare had not yet elapsed; and theirfirst taste of powder at Lees Mills had just occurred. First on the left is Andrew Cowan (later brevet-lieutenant-colonel), then lieutenant commanding the battery (he had been promoted to captain atLees Mills, hut had not yet received his captains commission). Next is First-Lieutenant William P. Wright(who was disabled for life by wounds received in the battle of Gettysburg), Lieutenant William H. Johnson(wounded at Gettysburg and mortally wounded at Winchester), and Lieutenant Theodore Atkins, sunstruckduring the fierce cannonade at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and incapacitated for further service in the army.Private Henry Hiser, in charge of the officers mess at the time, is leaning against the tent-pole. The firstI