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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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 2; the photographic record as history (search)
h which the task was executed. See my Bummers, said Old Sherman with most illigant emotion. Ain't their heads as horizontal as the bosom of the ocean? The raising of Old Glory over the Fort was the signal for the steaming up-stream of the supply ships, and that evening Grant and his staff-during the final campaign Just as the veterans in Blue and Gray were lining up for the final struggle — before Petersburg, June, 1864--this photograph was taken of the future victor, at his City Point headquarters, surrounded by his faithful staff. They are (from left to right, sitting) Colonel John A. Rawlins, Adjutant-General; Colonel C. B. Comstock, A. D. C.; Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant; Major M. M. Morgan, Chief Commissary Colonel Ely S. Parker, Military Secretary; Colonel O. E. Babcock, A. D. C.; (standing) Captain Henry Janes, Quartermaster for Headquarters; Captain William S. Dunn, A. D. C.; Major Peter Hudson, A. D. C. witnessed for the advance division a glorious banquet,
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 4: the strategy of the Civil War (search)
the Peninsula and of Meade in Military commerce. This view of the magazine wharf at City Point in 1864 reveals the immensity of the transportation problem that was solved by the North in su army in the field near by. When Grant finally settled down to the siege of Petersburg, and City Point became the army base, the little village was turned temporarily into a great town. Winter quaforwarding of troops and stores. The supply base longest occupied by the Army of the Potomac, City Point, grew up almost in a night. With the coming of peace the importance of the post vanished, and with it soon after the evidences of its aggrandizement. The magazine wharf at City Point in 1864 City Point, Virginia, July, 1864 ø the operations of October, 1863, had only partial success. City Point, Virginia, July, 1864 ø the operations of October, 1863, had only partial success. Near the end of the war Thomas' pursuit of Hood, after Nashville, showed a much higher efficiency than had yet been reached, and the Appomattox campaign gives the only entirely successful instance in