DescriptionThe photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782789933).jpg
Text Appearing Before Image: COPYRIGHT, 1911, HEVIEW OF REVIEWS CO CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER A. J. MYER, WITH A GROUP OF HIS SUBORDINATES AT RED HILL black flag was used. Against a variegcitcd background the red color was seen farther. In every importantcampaign and on every bloody ground, these men risked their lives at the forefront of the battle, speedingstirring orders of advance, warnings of impending danger, and sullen admissions of defeat. They were onthe advanced lines of Yorktown, and the saps and trenches at Charleston, Yicksburg, and Port Hudson,near the battle-lines at Chickamauga and Chancellorsville, before the fort-crowned crest of Fredericksburg,amid the frightful carnage of Antietam, on Kenesaw Mountain deciding the fate of Allatoona, in Shermansmarch to the sea, and with Grants victorious army at Appomattox anil Richmond. They signaled toPorter clearing the central Mississippi River, and aided Farragut when forcing the passage of Mobile Bay. Text Appearing After Image: COPYRIGHT, 19 11. REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.
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