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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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balcony of the Metropolitanlooking north on Broadway.The twin towers on the leftare those of St. ThomassChurch. The lumberingstages, with the deafeningnoise of their rattling win-dows as they drive over thecobblestones, are here inforce. More hoop-skirtsare retreating in the dis-tance, and a gentleman inthe tall hat of the periodis on his way down town.Few of the buildings seenhere remained half a cen-tury later. The time is sum-mer, as the awnings attest.
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THE WARS GREAT CITIZEN AT HIS MOMENT OF TRIUMPH Just behind the round table to the right, rising head and shoulders above the distinguished bystanders, grasping his manuscript in bothhands, stands Abraham Lincoln. Of all the occasions on which he talked to his countrymen, this was most significant. The time andplace marked the final and lasting approval of his political and military policies. Despite the bitter opposition of a majority of theNorthern political and social leaders, the people of the Northern States had renominated Lincoln in June, 1864. In November, en-couraged by the victories of Farragut at Mobile, Sherman in Georgia, and Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, they had reelected him(resident of the United States by an electoral vote of 212 to 21. Since the election, continued Northern victories had made certain the(16)

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