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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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COPYHIGMT, 1911, «EVIEW OF HEVIEWS CO- HEAVY ARTILLERY JUST ARRIVED BEFORE PETERSBURG—1864 the north bank of the James, Lee could not learn the triitli. By midnight of the loth, bridges were constructed, and following theSecond Corps, the Ninth began to cross. But already the Fifth and Sixtli Corps and part of the Army of the James were on theirway by water from White House to City Point. The Petersburg campaign had begun. Lees army drew its life from the great fieldsand stock regions south and southwest of Richmond. With the siege of Petersburg, the railroad center of the state, this source ofsupply was more and more cut off, until six men were made to live on the allowance first given to each separate Southern soldier.Outnumbered three to one in efficient men, with the cold of winter coming on and its attendant hardships in prospect, nowonder the indomitable Southern bravery was tried to the utmost. Sherman was advancing. The beginning of the end wasnear.
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COPYRIGHT, 19 THE BUSIEST PLACE IN DIXIE City Point, just after its cai)ture by Ikitler. From Juiie, 1804, until April, 1865, City Point, at thejuncture of the Appomattox and the James, was a point of entry and departure for more vessels thaaany city of the South including even New Orleans in times of peace. Here landed supplies that keptan army numbering, with fighting force and supernumeraries, nearly one hundred and twenty thousandwell-supplied, well-fed, well-contented, and well-munitioned men in the field. This was the marvelous base—safe from attack, secure from molestation. It was meals and money that won at Petersburg, the braveryof full stomachs and warm-clothed bodies against the desperation of starved and shivering out-numberedmen. A glance at this jjicture tells the story. There is no need of rehearsing charges, counter-charges,mines, and counter-mines. Here lies the reason—Petersburg had to fall. As we look back with a retro-spective eye on this scene of jilcnty and a

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