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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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etc. * M. L. Avary.1910. Recollection.s of Alexander II. Stephens, ///.v Diary, (30) ;<^.
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. MESSENGERS FROM THE CZAR OK Rl SSIA Here again the reader is introduced to some guests of the North—the officers of one of the little fleet that put into the Hudson andpaid visits along the coast. It was not the Russian people at large who showed any friendliness to the Tnited States during the CivilWar; they knew little, cared less, and were not affected by the results of the conflict more than if it had been waged between twosavage tribes in the heart of Africa. It was the Czar, for reasons of state or for his own purposes—which are much the same tiling—who made the friendly overtiu-es. Still smarting from the crushing disaster of the Crimea, where England, France, and Sardinia hadcombined to aid the hated Turk in keeping the Russians from the Bosphorus and the Mediterranean, the Czar would have given agreat deal to have seen the Trent affair open hostilities between America and the mother country. Great Britain then would haveits hands f

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