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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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The man wheat the opening of hostilities, was regarded as the most formidable generalin the Confederacy is commemorated in the poem opposite by a woman long prominent inthe relief work of the Grand Army of the Republic. Johnston, whose father was a Con-necticut Yankee, won distinction in the Black Hawk War, entered the army of Texas inits struggle for independence, succeeded Sam Houston as commander-in-chief, fought inthe War with Mexico, ami was recommended for the grade of brigadier-general for hisconduct at Monterey. When lie heard that his adopted state, Texas, had passed theordinance of secession, he resigned from the Department of the Pacific, lie was assuredthat he might have the highest position in the Federal service. Sorrowfully he declined,writing at the time: No one could feel more sensibly the calamitous condition of ourcountry than myself, and whatever part I may take hereafter, it will always he a subject ofgratulation with me that no act of mine ever contributed to bri

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