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Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THK CONFEDERACY CUT IN TWAIN The Levee at Vicksburg. February, 1864. For seven months the Federals had been in possession of the city, and the Mississippi—now open through its entire course—cut off the struggling Confederacy in the East from the South and Southwest, the storehouses oftheir resources and their main dependence in continuing the struggle. But even such a blow as this, coming on top of Gettysburg,did not force the brave people of the South to give up the struggle. In the picture the only remaining warlike signs are the tentson the opposite shore. But on both sides of the river the Confederates were still desperately striving to reunite their territory. Inthe East another year and more of the hardest kind of fighting was ahead; another severing in twain of the South was inevitable beforepeace could come, and before the muskets could be used to shoot the crows, and before their horses could plough the neglected fields.

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