File:The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14759634841).jpg

Identifier: photographichist08mill (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
n, afterGettysburg, it had usually to be done with our bayonets.Spades and axes were luxuries at such times. Bands of musicwere rare, and generally of inferior quality; but the men madeup for it as far as they could by a gay insouciance, and by sing-ing in camp and on the march. I have seen the men of theFirst Maryland Infantry trudging wearily through mud andrain, sadly bedraggled by a long march, strike up with greatgusto their favorite song, Gay and Happy. So let the wide world wag as it will,Well be gay and happy still. The contrast between the sentiment of the song and theenvironment of the column was sufficiently striking. In onerespect, I think, our camps had the advantage of the Unioncamps—we had no sutlers, and we had no camp-followers. But though our camp equipage and equipment were soinferior to those of our antagonists, I do not think any experi-enced soldier, watching our marching columns of infantry orcavalry, or witnessing our brigade drills, could fail to be (1221 VY
Text Appearing After Image:
COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. CONFEDERATE TYPES—GAY AND HAPPY STILL A conspicuous feature of the Southern army was its Americanism. In every camp, among the infantry, thecavalry and the artillery, the men were, with few exceptions, Americans. In spite of deprivations, the menwere light-hearted; given a few days rest and feeding, they abounded in fun and jocularity and were notedfor indulgence in a species of rough humor which found suggestion in the most trivial incidents, and wasoften present in the midst of the most tragical circumstances. In so representative a body the type variedalmost as did the individual; the home sentiment, however, pervaded the mass and was the inspiration otits patriotism—sectional, provincial, call it what you will. This was true even in the ranks of those knight-errants from beyond the border: Missourians, Kentuckians, Marylanders. The last were nameworthysons of the sires who had rendered the old Maryland Line of the Revolution of 1776 illus

Note About Images