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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), chapter 11 (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), The investment of Petersburg (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 16 (search)
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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.
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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), The siege and fall of Petersburg (search)
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.
Strange to say, it was the regiments from up-coun