The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65 /

The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:New York : The Review of Reviews Co., 1911-1912.
©1911
Description:10 volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm
Language:English
Subject:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1831518
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Other uniform titles:Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959,
Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-1912,
Lanier, Henry Wysham, 1873- Photographing the civil war.
Other authors / contributors:Review of Reviews Co., publisher.
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Provenance:Copy 3: From the library of Earle and Mary Ludgin.
Copy 3: Binding: publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt top edge and illustrated endpapers.
Notes:At head of title: Semi-centennial memorial.
Illustrated title page, in colors.
Each volume also has a special title page.
With index.
Another edition, without the narrative text, and with illustrative material rearranged, appeared under title: Photographing the civil war, by Henry Wysham Lanier.
Table of Contents:
  • v.1. The opening battles / contributors, William H. Taft, Henry Wysham Lanier, Eben Swift, French E. Chadwick, George Haven Putnam, Marcus J. Wright, Henry W. Elson, James Barnes
  • v.2. Two years of grim war / text by Henry W. Elson ; photograph descriptions by James Barnes
  • v.3. The decisive battles / introduction by Frederick Dent Grant ; text by Henry W. Elson ; photograph descriptions by James Barnes
  • v.4. The cavalry / editor, Theo. F. Rodenbough ; contributors, Theo. F. Rodenbough, Charles D. Rhodes, Holmes Conrad, Johan A. Wyeth
  • v.5. Forts and artillery / editor, O.E. Hunt ; contributors, O.E. Hunt, J.W. Mallet, David Gregg McIntosh, T.M.R. Talcott, C.E., Frederick M. Colston
  • v.6. The navies / by James Barnes ; with an introduction by French E. Chadwick
  • v.7. Prisons and hospitals / editor, Holland Thompson, Ph.D. ; contributors, Holland Thompson, Edward L. Munson, M.D., Deering J. Roberts, M.D.
  • v.8. Soldier life ; Secret Service / contributors, Charles King, Randolph H. McKim, Allen C. Redwood, John W. Headley, William B. Shaw, A.W. Greely, T.S.C. Lowe, Fenwick Y. Hedley, L.R. Stegman, George H. Casamajor, Roy Mason
  • v.9. Poetry and eloquence of Blue and Gray / editor, Dudley H. Miles, Ph.D. ; foreword by William P. Trent, LL.D. ; with an appendix, Songs of the war days / edited by Jeanne Robert Foster
  • v.10. Armies and leaders / contributors, Robert S. Lanier, William Conant Church, William Peterfield Trent, L.L.D., Walter Lynwood Fleming, Ph.D., John E. Gilman, Allen C. Redwood, Hilary A. Herbert, Marcus J. Wright, Samuel A. Cunningham.

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