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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Contents (search)
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 4 (search)
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Grant versus Lee Henry W. Elson
The battles in the Wilderness
Wreckage of trees and men, as they fell in the dense forest — victims of the month's advance that cost 40,000 Union dead and wounded
Ulysses S. Grant: General-in-chief of the Federal army in 1865.
born 1822; West Point 1843; died 1885.
Robert E. Lee: General-in-chief of the Confederate army in 1865.
born 1807; West Point 1829; died 1870.
Grant's first move against Lee: advance of the army of the Potomac, May 5, 1864: pontoons at Germanna ford on the Rapidan beginning the simultaneous movement to end the war
The gleaming bayonets that lead the winding wagons mark the first lunge of one champion against another — the Federal military arm stretching forth to begin the continuous hammering which Grant had declared was to be his policy.
By heavy and repeated blows he had vanquished Pemberton, Bragg, and every Southern general that had opposed him. Soon he was to be face to face with L
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 7 (search)
Part 2.
the simultaneous movements Henry W. Elson
Drewry's bluff impregnable
In battery Dantzler--Confederate gun commanding the river after Butler's repulse on land
Butler's failed attempt to take Petersburg.
Charles Francis Adams, who, as a cavalry officer, served in Butler's campaign, compares Grant's maneuvers of 1864 to Napoleon's of 1815.
While Napoleon advanced upon Wellington it was essential that Grouchy should detain Blucher.
So Butler was to eliminate Beauregard while Grant struck at Lee. With forty thousand men, he was ordered to land at Bermuda Hundred, seize and hold City Point as a future army base, and advance upon Richmond by way of Petersburg, while Grant meanwhile engaged Lee farther north.
Arriving at Broadway Landing, seen in the lower picture, Butler put his army over the Appomattox on pontoons, occupied City Point, May 4th, and advanced within three miles of Petersburg, May 9th.
The city might have been easily taken by a vigorous
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 11 (search)
Part 3.
closing in Henry W. Elson
Charleston, the uncaptured port
Confederate garrison cooking dinner in ruined Sumter--1864
Fort Sumter in 1864.
The story of how these photographs in unconquered Sumter were secured is a romance in itself.
No one, North or South, can escape a thrill at the knowledge that several of them were actually taken in the beleaguered port by George S. Cook, the Confederate photographer.
This adventurous spirit was one of the enterprising and daring artists who are now and then found ready when and where great events impend.
He had risked his life in 1863, taking photographs of the Federal fleet as it was bombarding Sumter.
The next year, while the magnificent organization of the Northern armies was closing in day by day; while the stores and homes and public buildings of Charleston were crumbling into pitiful ruins under the bombardment; while shoes and clothing and food were soaring to unheard — of prices in the depreciated C
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 16 (search)
Part 4.
from war to peace Henry W. Elson
The siege and fall of Petersburg
Union picket near Fort Mahone, the Confederate stronghold
The finished product: Union veterans of trench and field before Petersburg--1864.
It is winter-time before Petersburg.
Grant's army, after the assault of October 27th, has settled down to the waiting game that can have but one result.
Look at the veterans in this picture of 1864--not a haggard or hungry face in all this group of a hundred or more.
Warmly clad, well-fed, in the prime of manly vigor, smiling in confidence that the end is almost now in sight, these are the men who hold the thirty-odd miles of Federal trenches that hem in Lee's ragged army.
Outdoor life and constant roughing it affects men variously.
There was many a young clerk from the city, slender of limb, lacking in muscle, a man only in the embryo, who finished his three or five years term of service with a constitution of iron and sinews like whip-cords.