Image: The photographic history of the Civil War - in ten volumes (1911) (14576222538)

Description: Identifier: photographichist09inmill (find matches) Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880- Subjects: War photography Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co. Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant 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: d had ridden at the head of conquering columns,which in the Old World had been deemed worthy to stand withhead covered and feet sandled in the presence of princes, kings,and emperors. Now his ear caught the sound of martial music.Bands were playing the same strains which had mingled with theechoes of his guns at Vicksburg, the same quicksteps to whichhis men had sped in hot haste in pursuit of Lee through Vir-ginia. And then came the heavy, measured steps of moving col-umns, a step which can be acquired only by years of service in thefield. He recognized it all now. It was the tread of his old vet-erans. With his little remaining strength he arose and draggedhimself to the window. As he gazed upon those battle flags - r* i . (118) piiiiM ^*sSP?-<3i§$t^ ^M^^^^m^ £fiipS WLflh^.V)!;VJH?0=;f^ WcSS0$r£^ s§i;s pi§ HJe= ^^T-Ap-T:? ^^f^P&sm^m^ 5 iiTlr r Mrs. U. S.Grant Mrs. NellieGrant Sartohis GeneralU. S. Grant Colonel Frederick D. Grant, ELDEST SON .Iesse R. Grant. YOUNGEST SON Text Appearing After Image: U. S. Grant, Jr., THESECOND SON Mrs. ElizabethC. Grant, F. D. GRANT THIRD SON OFF. D. GRANT DAUGHTER OF F. D. GRANT JESSE R. GRANT JESSE R. QRANT THE TRAGEDY AT MOUNT McGREGOR—GRANT AND HIS FAMILY, JCLY 19, 1885 On July 16th, three days hefore this photograph was taken, the general was removed to a summer cottage on Mount McGregor, nearSaratoga Springs. Exactly a week later, July 23, 1885, he breathed his last amid the family here assembled. No period of Ulysses S.Grants life was more heroic than its closing months. He had remained in excellent health up to Christmas of 18S3. In the summer of1884 he was annoyed by unpleasant sensations in his throat. He paid little attention to the symptoms until autumn. A physician,calling one day in October, made an examination that alarmed him. He advised that a specialist be called at once. Cancer of thethroat had set in. The annoying sensations at length became painful, and in December the disease had so far advanced that to drinkeven liquid fo Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The photographic history of the Civil War - in ten volumes (1911) (14576222538)
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