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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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he up2:)er Schuylkill coal-district of Pennsyl-vania. From June 2.5tli mitil July 23d, these men were boringa tunnel from the rear of the TTnion works to a point under-neath the Confederate fortifications. Working under thegreatest difiiculties, with inadequate tools for digging, andhand-barro\vs made out of cracker boxes, in A\hich to carryaway the earth, there was excavated in this time a passage-wayfive hundred and ten feet in length, terminating in left andright lateral galleries, thirty-seven and thirty-eight feet re-sjjcctively. Into these lateral galleries eight thousand poundsof gunijowder were packed and tamped, and a fuse attached.On July 28th, everything was ready for the match to be ap-plied and for the gigantic upheaval, siue to follow. Grant, in order to get a part of I^ees army away, hadsent Hancocks corjis and two divisions of cavalry north ofthe James, as if he might attack Richmond. The ruse wassuccessful. Preparations were then completed to fire the mine, (198) -^/.
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COPYHIGHT, lyil. PATHIOT PWQ, CO. THE safp: end ok the moving battery Tlie Federals were nut the firstway trucks. In the defense ofDays and at the attack onSavages Station the Confeder-ates had mounted a field-pieceon a flat-car and it did severedamage to the Federal camps.But they possessed no suchformidable armored truck asthis. Propelled by man-power,no puffing locomotive betrayedits whereabouts; and as itrolled along the tracks, firing ashot from time to time, it musthave puzzled the Confederateoutposts. This was no clumsyexperimental toy, but a landgimboat on wheels, armoredwith iron-plating, backed bymassive beams. At the Globe Tavern GeneralWarren made his headquartersafter the successful advance of to use a gun mounted on rail-Richmond during the Seven

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