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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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is before Atlanta. The photograph shows one of the keypoints in the Contederatedefense, the fort at the head of Marietta Street, toward which the Federal lines were advancing fromthe northwest. The old Potter house in the background, once a quiet, handsome country seat, is nowsurrounded by bristling fortifications, palisades, and double lines of chevaux-de-Jrise. Atlanta was engagedin the final grapple with the force that was to overcome her. Sherman has fought his way past Kenesawand across the Chattahoochee, through a country which he describes as one vast fort, saying that John-ston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches with abatis and finished batteries. Anticipatingthat Sherman might drive him back upon Atlanta, Johnston had constructed, during the winter, heavilyfortified positions all the way from Dalton. During his two months in retreat the fortifications at At-lanta had been strengthened to the utmost. VMiat he might have done behind them was never to be known.
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eviEW OF R£ViEV\S CO AFTER THE SHARPSHOOTING IN POTTERS HOUSE One gets a closer look at Potters house in the background opposite. It was occupied by sharpshootersin the skirmishing and engagements by which the investing lines were advanced. So the Federals madeit a special target for their artillery. After Atlanta fell, nearly a ton of shot and shell was found in thehouse. The fort on Marietta Street, to the northwest of the city, was the first of the inner defenses tobe encountered as Sherman advanced quickly on July 21st, after finding that Hood had abandoned hisouter line at Peach-Tree Creek. The vicinity of the Potter house was the scene of many \-igorous assaultsand much brave resistance throughout the siege. Many another dwelling in Atlanta suffered as badlyas this one in the clash of arms. During Shermans final bombardment the city was almost laid in ruins.E^•en this was not the end, for after the occupation Captain Poe and his engineers found it necessary,in laying out the

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