False Confidence: This photo of 2nd R.I. soldiers, no doubt expecting an easy victory ahead, pose as they march toward Manassas, Va., in July 1861. (Rhode Island Photograph Collection , Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.)
False Confidence: This photo of 2nd R.I. soldiers, no doubt expecting an easy victory ahead, pose as they march toward Manassas, Va., in July 1861. (Rhode Island Photograph Collection , Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.)