The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14576371598)

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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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heavy guns, and protectedby a battery on the crest ofa hill. The troops chargedfourteen hundred yardsacross a deeply plowed fieldin the face of a galling fireof artillery and musketry.After a pause at the foot ofa liill, the head of the col-unm carried the parapet ofthe fort and planted theflag on one of its massivetraverses. In an attemptto drive the Confederatesentirely from the positionGeneral Ord was severelywounded. On September30th the Confederate Gen-eral R. II. Anderson, com-manding Longstreets Corps,attacked the captured fort,making three separatecharges, but was repulsedwith a loss of some twothousand men. WHERE ORD CROSSED THE .JAMES
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PALISADES A\D PARAPET .VT FORT HARRISON lEnga^rmnttB of tl;? diutl War 33 to 28.—North Anna River, Jcriclio Fordor Tajlors Bridge, and TotopotomoyCreek, Va. Union, Second, Fifth, andNinth Corps, Army of tlie Potomac,Maj.-Gen. !Meade; Confed., Army ofNorthern Virginia, Gen. R. E. Lee.Losses: Union, 186 killed, QM wound- 2.ed, l65 missing; Confed., 2000 killedand wounded. 24.—\\ilsons Wharf, Va. Union, 10th U. S.Colored, 1st D. C. Cav., Battery B U. S.Colored Artil.; Confed., Fitzhugh Lees 4,Cav. Losses: Union, 2 killed, 21wounded; Confed., 20 killed, 100wounded. 25 to June 4.— Dallas, Ga., also called NewHope Church and Allatoona Hills.Union, Fourth, Fourteenth, Twentieth, 5.and Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cum-berland, Ma j .-Gen. Thomas; Twenty-third Corps, )\Laj.-Gen. Schofield; Fif-teenth, Sixteenth, and SeventeenthCorps, Army of the Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. INIcPherson—Division of the Mis-sissippi, Maj.-Gen. Sherman; Confed., 6.Army of Tennessee, Gen. J. E. John-ston, commanding