The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14759507561)

Identifier: photographichist09mill (find matches)
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



Text Appearing Before Image:
&JM frvcd» %
Text Appearing After Image:
One of the most American of American authors, the novelist Francis Bret Hartc is represented in this volume bythree poems that reveal the lighter vein of his versifying. The Aged Stranger is purposely humorous. JohnBurns of Gettysburg is half-humorous. A Second Review of the Grand Army has touches of wit in spite ofits solemn subject. Hartc was born in Albany. New York, in 1839. The gold-fever caught him at fifteen; liewandered to California, where he made more at school-teaching than at gold-digging. At eighteen, he enterednewspaper life as a typesetter, and soon worked tip to the position of editor-in-chief of the Weekly Californian.From 1804 to 18(i7, while secretary of the United States Mint in San Francisco, he wrote most of his Civil Warpoems and many humorous ver>es that made his name familiar in both Fast and West. During the next twoyears he was editor of tin- Overland Monthly, publishing in it his best-known stories—The Luck of RoaringCamp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat