Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States (1907) (14576205410)

Identifier: originalphotogra00eato (find matches)
Title: Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Eaton, Edward Bailey Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959. Martyrs on altar of civilization
Subjects: Eaton, Edward Bailey War photography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : E.B. Eaton
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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, becoming separated from themain line. General Longstreet, ofthe Confederate Army, was shot andseverely wounded by his own men.Tremendous volleys of musketry rangthrough the woods. Dead leavesand branches were swept with flames.Men lost their way and wanderedinto the enemys lines. So rapid wasthe fire that the muskets became hotand blistered the fingers of the sol-diers. The losses in this great two-days battle cannot be stated accu-rately. One estimate places the Unionkilled, wounded and missing at 18,387and the Confederate, 11,400. Onthe afternoon of the seventh of May,Grant moved his army toward Spott-sylvania Court House, fifteen milessoutheast of the Wilderness Battle-field, with the intent of getting be-tween the enemy and Richmond andcompelling Lee to fight at a disadvan-tage. It was during these maneu-vers that this photograph was takenwhile the artillery was stationed at theedge of the forest. The negative wastaken in the full light of the noon-day sun in the Spring of 1864.
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PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN WHILE ARTILLERY WAS AT EDCE OF WOODS NEAR BATTLE OF WILDERNESS IN 1864