Identifier: photographichist01inmill (find matches)
Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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YOUNG SOUTHERNERS AT RICmiOND MAKINC. LIGHT OF WAR Skylarking before the lens of the Confederate photographer, we see the Boys in Gray just before Bull Run had tauglit tliem tlie meaningof a battle and elated them with the conviction of their own prowess. The young and confident troops on both sides approached thisfirst severe lesson of the war in the same jocular spirit. There is not a serious face in the picture. The man flourishing the swordbayonet and the one with the drawn dagger are marking with mock heroics their bravado toward the coming struggle, while the onewith the musket stands debonair as a comic-opera soldier. The pipe-clay cross belt and breast plate, the cock plumes in the shapoof the officer, indicate that the group is of a uniformed military organization already in existence at the beginning of the war. Therewas no such paraphernalia in the outfit of Southern troops organized later, when simpUcity was the order of the day in camp.

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