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Rare Civil War Photos Document Life Between Battles (1861-1865)
for more threads like this one : http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...me-line-45276/ America's Civil War, whose 150th anniversary is marked on Tuesday, is so often described in battles — the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fort Sumter — that it may be easy to forget that the soldiers who fought in the four-year war had a lot of time between fighting. The rare photos seen below document just that — the time soldiers spent waiting, preparing, recovering or just living. Wives and children sometimes followed their husbands to war, particularly in the early period of the conflict. The soldiers were in the camp, and the women were right there and the kids were right there. They called them camp followers,  Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment while away the hours during the lengthy Siege of Petersburg in 1864-65.  In March 1862, the Confederates abandoned their position at Manassas Junction, Va., site of the July 1861 rebel victory, as they prepared for a Union invasion. In this photo, local children observe Union cavalry soldiers across Manassas Creek.  Two soldiers are dead, but only one – the Union trooper – has been buried in this photograph taken after the battle by Alexander Gardner.  When the war broke out, pioneering aeronaut Thaddeus S.C. Lowe cut short his experiments with hydrogen-filled balloons, which included meteorological exploration and a proposed transatlantic voyage, and volunteered his services to the Union.  These former slaves were photographed at Fish Hall, a Hilton Head, S.C., plantation owned by the family of Emma Pope, the wife of Confederate General Thomas Drayton.  · |
