Word: rapidan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banished from the Army of the Potomac after this statement appeared in print with his picture of the retreat, Vizetelly switched not only his skill but his allegiance to the other side. Joining General Robert E. Lee's forces at the Rapidan in 1862, he thereafter produced the principal visual record of the Confederate campaigns, together with some strongly worded expressions on behalf of the Southern cause: "Surrounded as I am by the Southern people, I emphatically assert that the South can never be subjugated...