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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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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO THE FINAL BLOW TO THE CONFEDERACYS SOUTHERN STRONGHOLD It was Shermans experienced railroad wreckers that finally drove Hood out of Atlanta. In the picture the rails heating red-hotamid the flaming bonfires of the tics, and the piles of twisted debris show vividly what Sherman meant when he said their work wasdone with a will. Sherman saw that in order to take Atlanta without terrific loss he must cut ofT all its rail communications. This hedid by taking the field with our main force and using it against the c<mimunications of Atlanta instead of against its intrench-ments. On the night of August J5th he moved with practically his entire army and wagon-trains loaded with fifteen days rations.By the morning of the 27th the whole front of the city was deserted. The Confederates concluded that Sherman was in retreat.Next day they found out their mistake, for the Federal army lay across the West Point Railroad while the soldiers began wrecking it.Next da

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