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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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COVERING LEES RETREAT FROM PENNSYLVANIA This photograph is an excellent illustration of the cavalrys method of destroying the railroads betweenthe two capitals. The light rails were placed across piles of ties. The ties were lighted and the rails heateduntil of their own weight they bent out of shape. Mile upon mile of railroad could thus be destroyed ina day. New rails had to be brought before it was possible to rebuild the line. Note the tangle of tele-graph wires. The telegraph lines were also destroyed wherever the Confederate position was known andit was therefore impossible to tap them and read the Union leaders messages. The Army of NorthernVirginia and the Army of the Potomac spent the month of October, 1863, when this photograph was taken,maneuvering for position along the Rappahannock. On October 20th the Army of the Potomac was occu-pying Warrenton and Lee had retired to the north bank of the Rappahannock, having destroyed the Orangeand Alexandria Railroad from Bristoe Stat

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