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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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CONSTRUCTING GABIONS FOR GRANTS ATTACK ON PETERSBURG The basket-like objects in this photograph are gabions. On the top of one row lie sand-l:)ags. The soldieris seated on three short fascines, and in the background are some long fascines on another row of gabions.A gabion is a cylindrical basket with no bottom, which may be placed in a fortification and filled ^ith earth.Gabions make an exceedingly strong defense, since the dirt remains even if the baskets are smashed. Thou-sands of gabions were used in the entrenchments of both attacking and defending forces at Petersburg.Fascines consist of small branches or twigs tied by wire or rope or thongs of some tough vine. They vary inlength according to whether they are to be used in the construction of works or filUng in a ditch. Theyhold the earth at a steeper slope than the natural slope when the earth is loose. Gabions are also useful forrevetments from their perpendicularity; through sand-bags, a foot or two might be added to their he

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