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THE OilAIIA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 25, 1912.
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WRECK OF FLOUR MILLS
Tho tad lipiificance of this picture ii all too apparent. Through large arcai of the South all mills and factories were reduced to
, ; ashes. The wonder is that Lee's Army was able to hold out so long.
,0 YOU know that it was the destitution of the entire country,
' and not the, personal plight of Lee's ragged army which caused
tnem to lay down their arms at Appomattox r
Do you know that the war might have dragged out its weary length
for another year, if Sheridan had not laid waste the Shenandoah Valley
and if Sherman, on his March to the Sea, had not been "kind of care
less about fire" ? -
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Do you know that the Civil War cost the destruction of Sixteen
Billion Dollars ($16,000,000,000:00) worth of property? f
Over half a century has passed since the dogs of "war were loosed atBull Run,
and the casual reader, today, who learns of the devastations of the country 1861-65,
might suppose that the soldiers on both sides stooped to acts of vandalism.
But, it must be borne in mind that' it was a soldier's duty to destroy property as
well as life. To ditch a train was an act of patriotism. To burn the enemy's supplies,
no matter what their cost, was equal to the winning of a batde.
The destructive raids of the Civil War came to be recognized as one of the
greatest weapons of warfare and the first chance to see what actually happened to
property, to see the fearful waste that became the soldier's duty, is supplied by the
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j- Nothing can be comparecj to the visual facts that these
photographs, scattered throughout the 16 sections, hurl at the
on-looker railroad after railroad and train after train crumpled
into scrap iron, great ocean steamers wrecked, bridges destroyed.
In them, you can see cities like Columbia, Richmond,
Atlanta, Charleston, Petersburg, that had smiled with industry
and " home-life but a short time previously, staring stark to
heaven with churches, stores, homes burnt pavements torn up
whole streets obliterated. v
x Section 13
The Civil War Through the Camera
shows you ; just how 'The Waste War" looked while the
destroying cannons were booming when Sherman advanced
upon Atlanta and captured the city.
Time and again, as fast as the invading army could marcfi,
whole railroads had to be remade as the result of the activity of
Johnston's cavalry, while great bridges, span&ing wide and
swollen"rivers, !hadto be rebuilt' half a dozen times in a' few
months..; - .
This campaign, during four months of fighting and march
ing, day and night, cost the Union Army 28,000 killed and
wounded, besides nearly 4,000 had fallen prisoners, into the
Confederates' hands. ,
It was a great price to pay, but whatever else the capture of
Atlanta did, it ensured the re-election of Lincoln to the presi
dency of the United States, when defeat seemed almost certain.
The photographs in this section are vivid reminders of the terrible scenes
through which the nation passed before its final cementing into a perfect union.
They tell of the disasters resulting from stubbornness, from failure to compromise.
They will do more to win humanity to the cause of universal peace than all the
oratory that can fall from the lips of man. i ' i : V : ; . t-
' After you have seen them unbiased, unprejudiced, granting full credit and
full justice to North and South alike after you have turned back the pages of
time fifty years and walked through the ruined cities, the devastated farms, you
will realize what the Civil 'War meant, what all war means. You owe it to
yourself, you owe k to your children, to let them ,see all this and learn all this.
Every patriotic American should have this magnificent and timely collection
of Brady War Photographs. It is a lesson in patriotism that the children will
never forget, and for young and old it is a constant source of interest" Each sec
tion of the wonderful work tells the story of some great batde-while the ac
companying pictures, clear, distinct, beautifully printed, are marvelous, when we
realize that they were taken on the battlefields of fifty years ago.
- , Like the photographs, the text of THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH
THE CAMERA is surprising. It is absolutely different from any and all of
the histories you are used to. It is the kind of history you will like you will
want your children to know and, best of all, the sort they will read without
urging. For it is as fascinating as a fairy tale.
What We Have Done
for Our Readers
' Each week this paper will issue one of these parts in its regular sequence,
thus enabling you to follow the stirring events of half a century ago just as they
occurred. In this way every important event and phase of the war are covered..
Another good feature tvery pari is cmplrtt in itself. You can obtain one
or all, just as you desire. You don't have to1 keep in your head anything that
went before. Each section tells the full, entire story of a whole battle, from the
first scouting party to the last gun fired. You enter into all the hopes and
fears of the grim generals lined up for the fight You learn what forces they
had, and what brought on the .struggle. You watch the opposing lines gradu
ally close in. '
Then comes the first screaming bullet and the dull shock of conflict
Back and forth you see them; they surge until one side gives way.
Another chapter in history has been written. And with all the thrill of an eye
witness you come to know, as you never did before, the meaning of the words
Bull Run, Gettysburg, tho Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and all the rest down to
Appomattox! . , ?
Our subscribers can obtain this wonderful work of Elson's and Brady's
fascinating, beautiful photographs for such a trifling sum that it will never be
felt. Just cut out the War Souvenir Coupon each week and bring or send it
to our office with 10 cents to cover necessary expense such as cost of material,
handling, clerk hire, etc., and get any section you desire. '
SPECIAL NOTICE
. The series naturally begins with Bull Run, that first great encounter of
armed troops of the North and South. If you haven't received this section, or
any of the others that follow it, cut out coupon this week and we will
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. These pictures of Brady's make the most vivid, fascinating, true history of ,
the Civil War that ever has been, or ever can be compiled.. They show every
intimate and little known phase of the great war; every homely incident is
revealed; they roll back the pages of time fifty years and over.
Corporal James Tanner says: "The photographs are absorbingly interesting,
not only to those of us who were on the stage of action at the time, but it seems
to me they ought to be more so to the young people of today, for they put the'
dread reality of war before their eyes as no word painting can possibly do."
In Section 13 Ready Now the war-time photographs illustrate
SHERMAN'S
March Through Georgia
and the very scenes of ruin which fire and sword laid bare, the ground over
which die battles in the advance upon Atlanta were fought, and the generals who
lead both armies.
Air of the pictures 'in this section are unusually rare and interesting and are
further vitalized by a detailed and' authentic description of scenes and persons ,
represented. Some of the photographs are: ,
Sherman in 1865. '" - .
Buzzard's Roost, Georgia, May 7th, 1864.
In the Forefront, General Richard W. Johnson at Graysville.
Resaca, Field of the First Heavy Fighting.
The Work of the Firing at Resaca.
Another Retrograde Movement Over the Etowah Bridge. -Pine
Mountain, Where Polk, the Fighting Bishop of the Confederacy, 7
Was Killed.
In the Hardest Fight of the Campaign, the 125th Ohio.
Federal Entrenchments at the Foot of Kenesaw Mountain.
A Veteran Battery from Illinois. v 1
Thomas' Headquarters Near Marietta During the Fighting of ths)
Fourth of July. v
Palisades and Cheraux-de-Frise Guarding Atlanta.
General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, C S. A. Usxtsant-General
John B. Hood, CS. A.
Peach-Tree Creek, Where Hood Hit Hard.
The Army's Finger-Tips.
Driving Hood Out of Atlanta.
The Ruin of Hood's Retreat, Demolished Cars and Rolling-Mill and
many more includmg
A Handsome Colored Frontispiece
Ready For Franiing
HIS RODS WENT- BEFORE HIM
Spectacular Career f the' !
w rtai Who la vested the
Lightning-'Rod. '
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Tho announcement of the death in Mia
miui recently of Joha. Cole, .Inventor of
't"h lightning rod, recalHi tne epei-taruiar
career of that formerly interesting figure
in th world cf commerce and of science
as science was understood by the laymen
of earlier days. ' -
No doubt there are half-grown boys and
girls in plenty now who have never seen
a lightning rod. yet a quarter of a cen
tury ago no building was considered safe
from a bolt of lightning unless It was
surmounted by the trusted steel point
which was expected to attract ths fluid
and convey it harmlessly into the earth.
Public faith in the efficacy of the llght
Bli.s rod was so great that it was diffi
cult for the owner of a building to get a j
fire insurance policy unless he first pro-j
vlded a lightning rod as a shield from ,
damage from the elements us does the j
average negro depond upon his little bag
provided by the hoodood vender. . !
The farmer was the especial easy mark
selected by the smooth lightning rod ped
ler, for the reason that the farmer usually
owned his home, and besides, being less
Importuned by traveling agents, he was
more susceptible to their wiles, but in
the towns and cities no residence was
considered quite complete until it . was
embellished by a lightning rod.
But tho passing of the lightning rod has
been going on for many years, and now
it is-; practically unknown except . when
it is s?en on some of the other buildings
where It, hs been for perhaps twenty
five Or thirty years, and tho people have
cometo look upon it with about as muctt
respect for Its virtue as they have for the
left hind Ug of a graveyard rabbit. The
lightning rod served Its purpose; it made
several millionaires, and it Calmed the
feelings of thousands of nervous persons
during thunderstorms, but It has gone,
and soon It will be recalled only by, tradi
tion. St Louis Republic.
Strings vs. Buttons. '
The mother faced her son. -
"Georjtc,". she gravely said, "look me
In the eye. . You've never told me :m un
truth. Confess that you are tangled up
in some frivolous gnl s shoestrings.''
"No. mother." the boy easartr replied.
"her shoes are buttoned, and they're the
cutest little things you ever saw!"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
. Father Speaks."
- "Taft will sweep the country," declared
Mabel.
"Wilson wirt" sweep the country," - as
serted Maud. -
-'Roosevelt will sweep the country,"
averred Margaret.
At this point dad took a hand.
"Never mind about who's golnp to
sweep the country." said be. "Who's
going to sweep this here kitchen? That's
the question now." Louisville Courier.
Journal.
..'.'; Modesty. .
The dashing young woman was anxious
her aunt, who was rather old-fashioned,
should look as presentable as possible in
lier bathing costume.
"Surely, Aunt Ella," said the girl rathei
cautiously, "you're not going t to weai
yoor spectacles in the water?''
"Indeed, I am," replied her aunt
"Xoth.inc sra'l induce me to take off tvt
other thing. Judga