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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 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), With the veteran armies (search)
-bully, as he crouched in the bottom of the trench, they're trying to kill me! Of course they are, replied the little veteran quietly: They've been trying to kill me for the last six nights. But there was no fight left in the camp-bully when he was required to face bullets. Bomb-proofs on the lines in front of Petersburg, 1864 Bomb-proofs near Atlanta, Georgia fortifications, and rejoining Grant at Petersburg. Within a week he bored a way into the dim, dripping forests about Dinwiddie, found and overwhelmed Pickett at Five Forks, and, with thirty thousands men, turned Lee's right and cut the South Side Railroad. That meant the fall of Petersburg—the fall of Richmond. There was barely time to fire the last volleys over the third of Lee's great corps commanders, A. P. Hill; to send hurried warning to Jefferson Davis at Richmond; to summon Longstreet, and then began the seven days struggle to escape the toils by which the army was enmeshed. There had been no Sheridan