Identifier: civilwarthroughc00elso (find matches)
Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE ONES WHO NEVER CAME BACK These are some of the men for whom waiting women wept—the ones who never came hack. They be-longed to Ewells Corps, who attacked the Federal lines so gallantly on May ISth. There may be some whowill turn from this picture with a shudder of horror, but it is no morbid curiosity that will cause them tostudy it closely. If pictures such as this were familiar everywhere there would soon be an end of war. Wecan realize money by seeing it expressed in figures; we can .realize distances by miles, but some things intheir true meaning can only be grasped and impressions formed with the seeing eye. Visualizing onlythis small item of the awful cost—the cost beside which money cuts no figure—an idea can be gained of whatwar is. Here is a sermon in the cause of universal peace. The handsome lad lying with outstretchedarms and clinched fingers is a mute plea. Death has not disfigured him—he lies in an attitude of relaxa-tion and composure. Perhaps in some Southe

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