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Description: This piece that timed the Garrison of the beleaguered fort looks out across the marshes of Charleston Harbor.

Description: Here the gaunt figure of the Great Emancipator confronted General McClellan in his headquarters two weeks after Antietam had checked Lee's invasion of Maryland and had enabled the President to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Brady's camera has preserved this remarkable occasion, the last time that these two men met each other. "We spent some time on the battlefield and conversed fully on the state of affairs. He told me that he was satisfied with all that I had done, that he would stand by me. He parted from me with the utmost cordiality," said General McClellan. The plan to follow up the success of Antietam in the effort to bring the war to a speedy conclusion must have been the thought uppermost in the mind of the Commander-in-chief of the Army as he talked with his most popular General in the tent. A few days later came the order from Washington to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive hime South. McClellan was relieved in the midst of a movement to carry out the order.

Description: Here Grant's dress is nearer uniform than usual. A veteran recalls that it consisted ordinarily of a plain old army hat, "slouch", it was called and fatigue coat, pretty well worn, with very little insignia of rank for outward show. Thus he was frequently taken by the soldiers along the line for some old calvaryman who was investigating the affairs he knew nothing about. In his tours General Grant was often stopped by the guards around the camps and compelled to identify himself before the men would permit him to pass. It sometimes happened that the sentries knew the General well enough by sight, but since he was not in full uniform and bore no insignia of rank, they would solemnly compel him to halt until they could call for the officer of the guard, who would formally examine the general as to his identity.

Description: A leader who fought, but who won more by marches than others won by fighting and author of the most popular definition of war. At West Point, he tells us, "I was not considered a good soldier." When at the outbreak of the war he left Louisiana State Seminary, of which he was superintendent, and went up to Washington. He found Lincoln "too radical" to suit him and left profanely declaring the "politicians have got the country into the trouble, now let them get it out". This early attitude is interesting particularly as it underwent such a change.

Description: All quiet along the Potomac tonight, Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming; Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon, Or the light of the watch-fire, are gleaming, A tremulous sigh of the gentle night-wind Through the forest leaves softly is creeping; While the stars up above, with their glittering eyes, Keep guard, for the army is sleeping.

Description: Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote; For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With studd untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. -Lowell.

Description: "We're coming Father Abraham three hundred thousand strong." This youthful warrior in his "hickory" shirt was a member of the Fourth Michigan and was with the Army of the Potomac from Bull Run to Appomattox.

Description: Robert Edward Lee, the son of "Light Horse Harry" of Revolutionary days, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1807. Andrew Jackson secured him an appointment to West Point, and in 1829 he was graduated from this institution. He was with Scott in the Mexican War in the famous march upon Mexico City, and was three times brevetted for distinguished services. From 1852 to 1855 he was superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and later served a lieutenant-colonel of the Second Calvary in Texas. He went with his state when she seceded, and his life was found up in that of the Confederacy. He died in 1870. General Robert E. Lee had been offered the command of the United States army, but while "opposed to secession and deprecating war", he declined. He declared he could not raise his hand against his native Virginia. He then resigned his position as colonel in the United States Army, and was made commander of the military forces of Virginia.

Description: Twelve days after his capture, Davis was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe in a low cell. There he was kept more than four months. Then more comfortable quarters were assigned. His attending physician though a strong Republican was completely won by the charm of the Southern gentleman and published an account of his prison life that aroused public sympathy for the most distinguished prisoner ever held in the United States. On May 13, 1867, Davis was indicted for treason in the United States Circuit Court for the district of Virginia whereupon her was submitted to a bail of $100,000, signed by Horace Greeley and fourteen others. When Davis was released he was greeted with deafening cheers, huzzas and waving of hats. He was included in the general amnesty of Christmas Day, 1868, and was released in February, 1869. The twenty remaining years of his life were spent chiefly in Mississippi.