The Photographic History of the Civil War: Soldier life, secret serviceReview of Reviews Company, 1911 Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with test by many special authorities. |
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Página 35 - ... that body of incomparable infantry, the Army of Northern Virginia, which for four years carried the revolt on its bayonets, opposing a constant front to the mighty concentration of power brought against it ; which, receiving terrible blows, did not fail to give the like ; and which, vital in all its parts, died only with its annihilation.
Página 32 - So let the wide world wag as it will, We'll be gay and happy still." The contrast between the sentiment of the song and the environment of the column was sufficiently striking.
Página 30 - A conspicuous feature of this Southern army is its Americanism. Go from camp to camp, among the infantry, the cavalry, the artillery, and you are impressed with the fact that these men are, with very few exceptions, Americans. Here and there you will encounter one or two Irishmen. Major Stiles tells a story of a most amusing encounter between two gigantic Irishmen at the battle of Gettysburg — the one a Federal Irishman, a prisoner, and the other a Rebel Irishman, private in the Ninth Louisiana...
Página 28 - ... infantry, except in discipline, and that, for reasons not necessary to mention, never did equal Lee's army. With a rank and file vastly inferior to our own, intellectually and physically, that army has, by discipline alone, acquired a character for steadiness and efficiency unsurpassed, in my judgment, in ancient or modern times. We have not been able to rival it, nor has there been any near approximation to it in the other rebel armies.