The photographic history of the civil war.. (1911) (14782737093)

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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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e View of Our CivilWar, exhibits statistics showing the percentage of losses inthe most notable battles fought since 1745, and from them de-duces this conclusion, It thus appears that in ability to standheavy pounding, since Napoleons Waterloo campaign, theAmerican has shown himself preeminent. Colonel Dodge would have been justified in going muchfurther. Waterloo itself, the most famous of the worlds bat-tles, does not show such fighting as Americans did at Sharps-burg (Antietam), Gettysburg, or Chickamauga. In Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War, byLieutenant-Colonel G. F. R. Henderson, a British militaryexpert, is a complete list of killed and wounded in great battlesfrom 1704 to 1882, inclusive. Since Eylau, 1807, there hasbeen no great battle in which the losses of the victor—the pun-ishment he withstood to gain his victory—equal the twenty-seven per cent, of the Confederates in their victory at Chicka-mauga. The Henderson tables give the losses of both sides in each
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COPYRIGHT, 1911 REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. men or tup: fifth Georgia MORE THAN HALF THIS REGIMENT WAS KILLED AND WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF CHHKAMAUGA Lounging beneath the Stars and Bars are eight members of an Augusta, Georgia, company—The Clinch Rifles. Their new parapher-nalia is beautifully marked C. R. They have a negro servant. In a word, they are inexperienced Confederate volunteers of May,1801, on the day before their company became a part of the Fifth Georgia Regiment. Pass to November, 1863; imagine six of the sol-diers in the group lying dead or groaning with wounds, and but three unhurt,—and you have figured the state of the regiment after itwas torn to shreds at the battle of Chiekamauga. It was mustered in for twelve months at Macon, Georgia, May 11, 1861, being the lastregiment taken for this short term. The Sixth Georgia and those following were mustered in for three years or the war. The (HindiRifles were sent to garrison Pensacola, Florida, where General Braxton Bragg w