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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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HI&MT, 1911, HtVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE WORK OF THE BESIEGERS Battery Sherman, on tlie Jackson Road, before Vicksburg. Settling down to a siege did not mean idlenessfor Grants army. Fortifications had to be opposed to the formidable one of the Confederates and a con-stant bombardment kept up to silence their gnns, one by one. It was to he a (haw ii-ont duel in whicliPemberton, hoping for the long-delayed relief from Johnston, held ont bravely against starvation and evenmutiny. For twelve miles the Federal lines stretched around Vicksburg, investing it to the river bank,north and south. More than eighty-nine battery positions were constructed by the Federals. BatterySherman was exceptionally well built—not merely revetted with rails or cotton-bales and floored withrough timber, as lack of proper material often made necessary. Gradually the lines were drawn closer amicloser as the Federals moved up their guns to silence the works that they had failed to take in May. Atthe time of t

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