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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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Brigadier-General J. B.Ricketts. Major-General H. G. Wright, and BrevetMajor-General G. W. Getty. One division of thecorps was prominent at Gaines Mill, where therewere about twenty thousand men present for duty,and it was partially engaged at Second Bull Run,South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. In the last battle it was in the Left Grand Di-vision. The corps carried Maryes Heights in theChancellorsville campaign, but. excepting one bri-gade, it was held in reserve at Gettysburg. Severalchanges were made in the reorganization of March.1N64. and with about twenty-five thousand men atthe opening of the Wilderness campaign, it foughtwith the Army of the Potomac as far as Peters-burg, when it was smt to the defense of Washing-ton. Afterward it joined the Army of the Shen-andoah and was prominent at the Opequon,Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek. In December,1864. the corps returned to Petersburg and con-tinued with the Army of the Potomac until it wasdiscontinued, June 28. 1865. ( -)
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Michael K. Lawler Promoted for Gallant Service Throughout the War. FEDERAL GENERALS—No. 4—ILLINOIS Giles A. Smith Commander of a Division in Georgia and the Carolinas. ii»nmttl) Army (Corps Major-General William Buel Franklin(U.S.M.A. 1843) was born in York, Pennsyl-vania, February J2T, 1823, and served in the Mex-ican War. He was also an engineer, and taught atWest Point. At the opening of the Civil War, ascolonel, he had a brigade at Hull Pun, and subse-quently a division in the First Corps, Army ofthe Potomac, which formed the nucleus of theSixth when it was ordered to McClellan on thePeninsula, after having gone with McDowell to theDepartment of the Rappahannock. Franklin roseto be major-general of volunteers, his commissionbeing dated July 4, 1862. In Burnsides reorgani-zation of the Army of the Potomac, he commandedthe Left Grand Division at Fredericksburg. Hisconduct in this battle was unsatisfactory to Burn-side, and Franklin was relieved from duty in theservice. In Augus

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