SEMI-CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN TEN VOLUMES - Softcover

Miller, Francis Travelyan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1130756882 ISBN 13: 9781130756883

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... they were picked men for the job--men in the prime of life, brawny and strong--they were the slaves of their pet monster. Some shots from this gun went much farther than they were ever intended, carrying their fiery trails over the Confederate entrenchments and exploding within the limits of the town itself, over two and a quarter miles. The roar of the explosion carried consternation to all within hearing. In the lower picture is the great mortar resting in the position it occupied longest, near Battery No. 4. THE INVESTMENT OF PETERSBURG The cause was lost, but the end was not yet. The noble Army of Northern Virginia, once, twice conqueror of empire, must bite the dust before its formidable adversary.--Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, C.S.A., in "From Manassas to Appomattox.'" THE disastrous failure of the Union army on the sanguinary battlefield of Cold Harbor, in June, 1864, destroyed Grant's last chance to turn the Confederate right flank north of Richmond. He could still try to turn Lee's left and invest Richmond from the north, but this would not have interfered with the lines of supply over the James River and the railroads from the South and West. The city could have resisted for an indefinite time. If Richmond were to fall, it must be besieged from the south. The movement from Cold Harbor began after dark on June 12th, and Meade's whole army was safely over the James River at Wilcox's Landing by midnight on the 16th of June. The little city of Petersburg is situated twenty-one miles south of Richmond on the southern bank of the Appomattox, a small stream threading its way through the Virginia tidewater belt, almost parallel with the James, into which it flows. In itself the town was of little value to either army. But it was the doo...

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1130756882
• ISBN 13: 9781130756883
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80