Image: The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782675743)

Description: Identifier: photographichist09mill (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: ' Text Appearing After Image: REVIEWS CO. ILL LET SAMBO BE MURTHERED INSTEAD OF MYSELFCOLORED INFANTRY AT FORT LINCOLN. 1862 This picture possesses especial interest as the subject of the following comment by Major George HavenPutnam (a contributor to Volume I of this HisTom ) from his experience as a Federal officer in charge ofcolored I roops: Late in the war. when the < !onfederacy was sadly in need of fresh supplies of men, the propo-sition was more than once brought up in the (lonfederate (longress and elsewhere for the arming of the slavesor of a selection of the slaves. But such a step was never ventured upon. On the Northern side, as early asL862, regiment- were formed of the colored residents of the North, the first two being the famous Fifty-fourthand Fifty-fifth Massachusetts. These men represented, of course, a fairly high average of intelligence and ofeducation, and they did brilliant fighting. In the course of the succeeding two years many regiments wereorganized out of the plantation negroes as t 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 - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782675743)
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