Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original 452 illustrations. See 42655-h.htm or 42655-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42655/42655-h/42655-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42655/42655-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/civilwarcamera00elsorich THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE CAMERA [Illustration: AT THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN. _Painted by E. Jahn._ _Copyright, 1901, by Perrien-Keydel Co., Detroit, Mich., U. S. A._] THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE CAMERA Hundreds of Vivid Photographs Actually Taken in Civil War Times Sixteen Reproductions in Color of Famous War Paintings The New Text History by HENRY W. ELSON Professor of History, Ohio University A Complete Illustrated History of the Civil War New York McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie Copyright, 1912 Patriot Publishing Co., Springfield, Mass. [Illustration: MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON AND FAMILY COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.] This Federal major of artillery was summoned on April 11, 1861, to surrender Fort Sumter and the property of the government whose uniform he wore. At half-past four the following morning the boom of the first gun from Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor notified the breathless, waiting world that war was on. The flag had been fired on, and hundreds of thousands of lives were to be sacrificed ere the echoes of the great guns died away at the end of four years into the sobs of a nation whose best and bravest, North and South, had strewn the many battlefields. No wonder that the attention of the civilized world was focussed on the man who provoked the first blow in the greatest conflict the world has ever known. He was the man who handled the situation at the breaking point. To him the North looked to preserve the Federal property in Charleston Harbor, and the honor of the National flag. The action of the South depended upon his decision. He played the part of a true soldier, and two days after the first shot was fired he led his little garrison of the First United States Artillery out of Sumter with the honors of war. SCENES OF '61 THAT QUICKLY FOLLOWED "BROTHER JONATHAN" (PAGE 44) [Illustration: CONFEDERATES IN SUMTER THE DAY AFTER ANDERSON LEFT]