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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

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pymCHT, itit, REVIEW or heviews co. WILDERNESS CHURCH-^TIIE SCENE OE JACKSONS SECOND RUSH The shots that rifidled the roof of this humble meeting-house were fired on an evening of triumph and panic. He.vond the ehiireh.as the sun sank low on May 2d, stretched the main Union line. Howards Eleventh Corps. The troops had stacked their arms and layat ease. Supper was cooking. Suddenly bugle-calls came from the west. Then a roar of human voices .swept the forest. .\ doublebattle-line in gray burst from the woods, ran over the gunners, and shattered the <livisions into fragments. Gallant Ee.leral officers.lid their best to re-form their lines. With the little church at about the center, a stand was made by five thousan.l mm of Sehur7.-sdivision, with some of Devens-but without respite Jackson gave the call to advance, .\fter twenty minutes of furious fighting.the Confederate battle-flag flew in the clearing. It was then that the fugitives fr.m, the Eleventh Corps came in sight. KALEVIMAG

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