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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Marshaling the Federal army (search)
ation of this Photographic history. The opportunity thus furnished to study the volunteers of the Confederacy as they camped and drilled and prepared for war is unique. A vivid glimpse of the Confederate army—1861 inside the battery North of Fort McRee at Pensacola This spirited photograph by Edwards of New Orleans suggests more than volumes of history could tell of the enthusiasm, the hope, with which the young Confederate volunteers, with their queerly variegated equipment, sprang to the defense of their land in 1861. Around this locality in Florida some of the very earliest operations centered. Fort McRee and the adjacent batteries had passed into Confederate hands on January 12, 1861, when Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer withdrew with his eighty-two men to Fort Pickens in Pensacola Harbor. The lack of conventional military uniformity shown above must not be thought exceptional. Confederate camps and men in general pretended to nothing like the smartness of the well-equipped b
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Confederate of 1861 (search)
in the field Washing dishes: real soldiering for a Confederate of 1863 Where uniforms were lacking, but resolution was firm: a Confederate drill in Fort McRee, Pensacola harbor. The Confederates who stood in this well-formed line saw active service from the earliest period of the war. The day that Florida seceded f 22d and 23d, the United States vessels Niagara and Richmond, together with Fort Pickens and the adjoining batteries, bombarded the Confederate lines. Although Fort McRee was so badly damaged that General Bragg thought of abandoning it, the garrison held firm, and the plan of the Union commanders to take and destroy it did not subatteries, bombarded the Confederate lines. Although Fort McRee was so badly damaged that General Bragg thought of abandoning it, the garrison held firm, and the plan of the Union commanders to take and destroy it did not succeed. Forts McRee and Barrancas were bombarded again by the Union warships and batteries January 1, 1862.