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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), Military information and supply (search)
ntry guarding the quartermaster's stores at Nashville, Tenn., on the Cumberland, while the sentry on the right is at City Point, Va., on the James. Guarding Federal army supplies at Fort Fisher North Carolina Guarding Federal army supplies at Nashville Guarding Federal army supplies at City Point Again, after Antietam, what tremendous tales of Southern strength must have held McClellan an entire month along the north bank of the Potomac, while Stuart, with less than two thousand kly artist sketching the Gettysburg battlefield, 1863 Waud at headquarters, 1864, later in the war up the James to City Point, thence by mule wagon or military railway to the neighboring camps. The entire army could always be freshly clothed an's station Col. J. B. Howard, Q. M. Sibley, wall, and a tents Supplies at White House Army bread Supplies at City Point Grand review at Washington Repair shops. During the progress of the war, repair shops were established by
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), The business side of war-making (search)
tals and so were able to make the homeward journey. The lower photograph shows a transport steamer crowded with troops for Grant's concentration of the army at City Point. Transport steamer on the River James carrying a number of these furloughed men, most of whom had become convalescent in the hospitals. Transport steamete's terse speech to his army in Italy: Soldiers! You need everything—the enemy has everything. The Confederates often acted upon the same principle. At City Point, Virginia, Grant's wagon-trains received the army supplies landed from the ships. Loading supply-wagons from transports for Grant's army—City Point, 1864 PorCity Point, 1864 Pork, hard-tack, sugar, and coffee for the regimental commissary at Cedar level established at Washington, but, from the very outset, the seceding State Governments were active in provisioning the Confederate armies, and in some instances there was an apparent jealousy of authority, as when Confederate officers began the impressmen
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)
It is hard to remember when one reads of the bloody battles, the manly sacrifices, the stern, exhausting work of the Union armies, that over one million of the soldiers who fought for the Union were not over twenty-one. It was an army of boys, and in Camp they acted as such. They boxed and wrestled and played tricks on each other like boys in school. The thirteenth New York artillery playing football during the siege of Petersburg Boxing at the Camp of the thirteenth New York at City Point, 1864 A diversion at General O. B. Wilcox's headquarters, in front of Petersburg, August, 1864 had taken full measure of recompense for this humiliation in the three tremendous days at Gettysburg, had triumphed at last over the skilled and valiant foemen who for two long years had beaten them at every point, but even now they could not make it decisive, for, just as after Antietam, they had to look on while Lee and his legions were permitted to saunter easily back to the old lines alo
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), The Federal Secret service (search)
od, superintendent of the old Capitol Prison, at Washington. In pursuit of his duties Mr. Wood was in daily contact with the most important of the military prisoners who fell into the clutches of the Federal Government. He lost no opportunity of gaining any sort of information in regard to the workings of the Confederacy and the plans of its armies, Secret-service headquarters in the last months of the War during the winter of 1864-65, General Grant had his headquarters at City Point, Virginia, and the building occupied by the Secret-service men is shown here, as well as a group of scouts who are as idle as the two armies in the Petersburg trenches. But a few weeks' work in the opening spring, as Grant maneuvers to starve Lee out of Petersburg, and the scouts' duties will be over. Sheridan will come, too, from the Shenandoah with his cavalry scouts, the finest body of information seekers developed by the War. General Grant was in a constant state of uneasiness during the
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), The Signal Corps (search)
is photograph, taken at Wilcox Landing, near City Point, gives an excellent idea of the difficulties our right, taken Stedman, and are moving on City Point. Assuming command, General Parke ordered a is last days—military telegraph operators at City Point. 1864 When Lincoln went to City Point at City Point at the request of General Grant, March 23, 1865, Grant directed his cipher operator to report to the Pr only cer- Military telegraph operators at City Point, August, 1864 The men in this photograph,cipher operator who accompanied Lincoln from City Point on his visit to Richmond April 4, 1865. In to the telegraph office, upon his return to City Point. Beckwith found a number of cipher messageserator. Gaston entered the Union lines near City Point, while Richmond and Petersburg were besiegedith desperate gallantry, and cut the wire to City Point. The Federals speedily sent the message of our right, taken Stedman, and are moving on City Point. Assuming command, General Parke ordered a [1 more...]