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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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 3.1: the Federal Navy and the South (search)
stances it can be easily seen that men were tempted to take risks that ordinarily they would avoid. A Charleston volunteer company at drill under the walls of Castle Pinckney In pipe-clayed cross belts and white gloves, with all their accoutrements bright and shining, here we see a volunteer company of young Confederates standing at Present arms and posing before the camera. The four officers standing in front of the line are Captain C. E. Chichester, Lieutenant E. John White, Lieutenant B. M. Walpole and Lieutenant R. C. Gilchrist. Gilchrist is curving his Damascus scimitar — a blade so finely tempered that its point would bend back to form a complete loop. degree only; for the fight was not wholly a fair one. Difference of forces in the field may be set aside, as the fight being on the ground of the weaker, any disproportion in numbers was largely annulled. But the army of the North was lavishly equipped; there was no want of arms, food, raiment, ammunition, or medical care
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Northern and Southern prisons (search)
Again the reader penetrates inside the Confederate lines in war-time, gazing here at the grim prison barriers of Castle Pinckney, in Charleston Harbor, where some of the Union prisoners captured at the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, had been sent. The thick stone walls frown down upon the boys of the Charleston Zouave Cadets, assigned to guard these prisoners. Here they are drilling within the prison under the command of Lieutenants E. John White (in front at the right) and B. M. Walpole, just behind him. The cadet kneeling upon the extreme right is Sergeant (later Captain) Joseph F. Burke. The responsibility was a heavy one, but the Cadets were a well-drilled body of youngsters and proved quite equal to their duties. This was early in the war before there were brigadier-generals scarcely of age, and youth had been found not to preclude soldierly qualities. No escapes from this fortress have been chronicled. were of heavy planks and were sometimes divided by partitio
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), W (search)
nn., II., 348. Walkerton, Va., IV., 124. Wall, J. W., VII., 202. Wall tents (see also Tents): used in Confederate Army, VIII., 167. Wallace, L.: I., 184, 186, 188, 190 seq., 200, 206, 208, 360; III., 146; VII., 105, 108, 207; IX., 95; X., 4, 23, 206. Wallace, W. H. (Confederate), X., 283. Wallace, W. H. T.,: I., 360; VII., 98. Wallace's Ferry, Ark., III., 328. Walnut Creek, Mo., II., 320. Walnut Hill, Vicksburg, Miss. , II., 185. Walpole, B. M.: I., 89; VII, 59. Walthall, E. C., X., 276, 277. Walton, J. B., II., 340. Walworth, M. T., VIII., 289. Wanamaker, J., VII, 17. War: Franco-Prussian, I., 30; photograph, very wonderful and daring, taken by George S. Cook, I., 100; records, official compilation of, I., 104; students of Europe and America discussing the strategy of, I., 113; Mexican, I., 174; awful expedients, II., 243; department officials, III., 157; termination of, III., 235; horses, sagac